video: Equipped with suction cups, this soft robotic "arm" made of V-SPA modules can pick up and transport objects. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 30, 2017, issue of Science Robotics, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Robertson at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities." view more
Credit: Robertson and Paik, Sci. Robot. 2, eaan6357 (2017)