Shape changing robots are nothing new. We have covered a bunch of them here in the past. Most of them don’t have their shape changing function embedded in their body. Researchers have now developed 3 robotic systems with “shape actuation, sensing, and locking, all embedded in a robot’s body.”
Researchers developed a “self-sensing shape-morphing grippers that can adapt to objects for adaptive grasping, a quadrupedal robot that can morph its body shape for different terrestrial locomotion modes and an untethered robot that can morph its limbs’ shape for amphibious locomotion.”
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