This ‘Soft’ Robot is So Delicate It Can Hold a Flower

Mashable 2014-07-29

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A team at Harvard is creating a series of “soft” robots. This one looks like a tentacle and has full-range of motion. So it can bend, twist and wrap objects in it’s soft arm. It’s delicate enough it can hold a flower.
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