Sensing Episode 2: Squish Goes the Robot!

Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic.Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bioinspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics. Full Transcript The Veritalk Team: Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert Sound Designer: Ian Coss Logo: Emily Crowell Executive Producer: Ann Hall Special thanks to Ryan Truby and Jennifer Lewis. Ryan Truby’s research is supported by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, National Science Foundation through the Harvard MRSEC, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Schmidt Science Fellows program, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust.

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Sensing Episode 2: Squish Goes the Robot! is an episode from Veritalk by Harvard University.

This episode is 00:17:26 long.

This episode was published on Dec 9, 2019.

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