Squishy inflatable tubes could make programmable soft robots

GOLAHURA

Pierre-Thomas Brun at Princeton University and

his colleagues have found that soft

inflatable tubes may just do the trick

The team filled various moulds with a rubber-like material called

polyvinyl siloxane that starts off liquid but becomes solid

and elastic as time passes

Robotic hands made from metal frequently end

up crushing delicate objects like fruit when trying to pick them up

often experiment