Meet the Octobot: For the first time in soft robotics

For the first time a soft robot was built that moves without batteries or cables on your own.

It comes from the Faculty of Applied Sciences (SEAS) and engineering sciences at Harvard University - and takes the form of a tire 7cm octopus.

The "octopodes" can not run or swim, but it poses sets of legs of a slow, eight-legged can-can alternate.

The researchers say it is an important step on the way to the flexible robot that can help messy. real situations - such as surgery - where rigid robots fail.

Video: Lori Sanders, Ryan Truby, Michael Wehner, Robert Wood and Jennifer Lewis - Harvard SEAS.

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