A Breakthrough In Soft Robotics?
Researchers at Yale have been developing around soft robotics, stretching Arduinos into unbelievable shapes - some SparkFun products even made it into the mix.
A few months back, an interesting YouTube video came to our attention titled, "Overview of stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots” published by the Faboratory at Yale University that presented a generalized method to translate two layer circuits into soft, stretchable forms. The video shows these really cool soft circuits being stretched out at strains upwards of 300%, which is incredible, but what really caught our eye was when some SparkFun red showed up in the video alongside other common open-source electronics. So we decided to do an interview with one of the researchers, Stephanie Woodman, a PhD student and NASA Fellow, to see what’s going on in the wacky, futuristic world of soft Robotics.
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