We're focused on ocean exploration robots and space exploration robots. But to be adaptive you need feedback control. So that's why we spent a lot of time making a robust adaptive which these with these stretchable fiber optic touch sensors. And by the way stop it. I'll tell the students stop.
Can you give a robot a sense of touch? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, learn about soft robotics, sensors, and understanding human physiology with co-founders of Organic Robotics Corp, Professor Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil.
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