Video Friday: Octopus Robot, Solar Drone, and Humanoid Neck Test

IEEE Spectrum Robotics 

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your thick-necked Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Here we report the untethered operation of a robot composed solely of soft materials. The robot is controlled with microfluidic logic that autonomously regulates fluid flow and, hence, catalytic decomposition of an on-board monopropellant fuel supply.