John Rieffel – Computer Science – Automatically Designing and Building Complete Soft Robots Background Imagine a deformable robot able to squeeze through small apertures to reach a survivor trapped in rubble, or a minimally invasive surgical arm capable of dynamically adapting to multiple roles, from hemostat to syringe. Long the realm of science fiction, recent […]
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As early as the mid-eighteen hundreds, man has imagined himself one day being able to use mechanisms and prosthetics to extend the limits of the human body. In his 1839 short story, “The Man That Was Used Up”, Edgar Allen Poe describes a statuesque man, referred to as the General, who was the victim of […]