MIT’s deflated balloon robot hand can pick up objects 100x its own weight - https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/mits-deflated-balloon-robot-hand-an-pick-up-objects-100x-its-own-weight/

Soft, biologically inspired robots have become one of the field’s most exciting offshoots, with machines that are capable of squeezing between obstacles and conforming to the world around them. A joint project between MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss converts those learnings into a simple, soft robotic…


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