The First Tendril-Like Soft Robot (VIDEO)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT

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Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia obtained the first artificial plant tendrils: it is a soft robot able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles of water transport in plants. Results are on Nature Communications.

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