It came from outer Harvard : the world's first fossil fuel powered hopping rabbot, a 3-D printed soft bunnyrabbitoid, capable of leaping very small buildings in a single bound.
The university Gazette asks :
The university Gazette asks :
what if you could combine the autonomy and speed of a rigid robot with the adaptability and resiliency of a soft robot, and do so relatively cheaply and quickly?Harvard engineers have done that, developing one of the first soft robots through 3-D printing that moves autonomously. Described in the July 10 issue of the journal Science, the design offers a fresh solution to the engineering challenge that has plagued soft robotics: the integration of rigid and soft materials.
But what will become of MacDonald's if the beast is equipped with a spatula, and the requisite software for an automatous burger-flipping droid?
