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Soft robotics
The emerging field of soft robotics deals with the development of robots comprised of materials similar to those found in living organisms like the creation of a synthetic soft muscle tissue. Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical engineering and data science at Columbia University joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss this topic.
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