Soft Robot

"One longstanding vision for the field of soft robotics has been to create robots that are entirely soft, but the struggle has always been in replacing rigid components like batteries and electronic controls with analogous soft systems and then putting it all together," said Robert Wood--who co-developed Octobot with Jennifer A. Lewis--speaking to the Harvard Gazette. Octobot is proof that it can be done--and somewhat easily, too, using readily available fabrication methods.