These Inflatable Pouch Motors Will Make Building Robots as Easy as Using Stickers

How easy is it to build a robot? Not very. How easy could it be to build a robot? Well, what if we try just sticking printable, inflatable actuators made of plastic onto origami (or anything else)? As Ryuma Niiyama and colleagues from the University of Tokyo and MIT have discovered, it really is that easy. We covered these “pouch motors” (or “free-form planar soft actuators,” if you want to get te

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