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Soft Robotic Muscles
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26 minutes
Released:
Dec 18, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Soft Robotic Muscles (WHOLE SHOW) Robotic Materials are going beyond gears and levers toward powerful components that are softer and more muscular. These materials may someday soon help build more human like prosthetic limbs for amputees. . . . or help a harvesting machine pluck ripe strawberries without squishing them. PhD students Nick Kellaris and Shane Mitchell are with CU Boulder’s … Continue reading "Soft Robotic Muscles"
Released:
Dec 18, 2018
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Podcast episode
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