Robots are designed for speed and precision — but their rigidity has often limited how they're used. In this illuminating talk, biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni shares the latest developments in "soft robotics," an emerging field that aims to create nimble machines that imitate nature, like a robotic octopus. Learn more about how these flexible structures could play a critical role in surgery, medicine and our daily lives.
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Oh sweat summer child
Bendable Robots I see where this is Going If you know what I mean
Baymax!!!!
Perfect #loveit
The way she moves her lips, manipulates her tongue, changes her throat to make noises is sexy.
no… its only in your blue mind of a teenager and because shes a Latino – you see people like you are the reason why we dont have cure for cancer already .
Italian, not Latina.
Fxck robots
Is it just me, or is she really saying a lot of sexual things??
yes, it really filled the gaps … wow
lol
@someone who are you???? you follow every comment I make on everything.. lee????
Fl. USA computer teck ….. U ?
“Well maybe you think you are not really able to do anything if you are soft, probably”
I think I’m in love with her
I came here just to read the comments xD.
Biomimetics. Nature does it first and more efficiently.
Where the frick is Ted, he never shows up!
Nice one! And no, not just her.
flexible, soft robots?
You mean like a personal massage vibrator? 😉
There are quite a few robots with rigid structures that work well. The military uses “Big Dog” for transporting heavy gear through rough terrain, and Honda has their Asimo, which can run go up stairs and open doors, for example. Her examples of failed rigid structured bots are just early phases of these machines. I think her idea is good, just not a fair comparison.
I noticed that too, I thought that was an odd choice of examples but I think she was just framing it to be a somewhat 1:1 comparison since most of her soft robot examples were also fairly early development models. I’ve seen that white X looking one as far back as 2015. It’ll take time to mature, but there’s already been some really interesting examples of pneumatics used like muscle tissue, so who knows we might be seeing a talk like this with more mimetic and hybridized examples in the near future!
I dont want any robots. I just want to live on a peaceful planet where there is a real democracy
You’d need to completely remove humanity from the equation, I’m afraid. But we can still strive to be better, and demand better of those that chose towork in politics– spreading compassion and keeping humanity as part of the discussion will help a lot in the face of avarice!
and you want human people to be working on conveyor lines, in warehouses, in construction sites, flipping burgers, cleaning toilets and doing other sub-human tasks? in the 21st century? are you fvcking serious?!
Japan will definitely combine this technology with hyper-realistic humanoid androids.
I once saw a soft space ship and it was moving like a robot and people could live in it in my dream
I thought it was designed for long trips of space
Skynet keeps evolving…
Porcodio si sente l’accento italianissimo