'soft robots constructed from highly compliant materials, similar to those found in living organisms, are being championed as safer, and more adaptable, resilient, and bioinspired alternatives to traditional rigid robots,' comments the official MIT release. 'but giving autonomous control to these deformable robots is a monumental task because they can move in a virtually infinite number of directions at any given moment. 'we're sensorizing soft robots to get feedback for control from sensors, not vision systems, using a very easy, rapid method for fabrication,' he continues. 'we want to use these soft robotic trunks, for instance, to orient and control themselves automatically, to pick things up and interact with the world.