• “Where everybody’s really excited to see soft robots come in is right at the human-robot interface,” Mr Truby told BBC News.
• our first embodiment of an entirely soft robot, it needed to have the form of an octopus.”
• It’s made in a way that other people can look at and say, we could use these technologies ourselves — we can make ones that have better fuel systems, or have better control systems, or a more sophisticated body.
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• Image copyright R Truby/M Wehner/L Sanders/Harvard University Image caption The octobot: More of a tribute than a replica

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