We've decided to make liquid that could be used as hydraulic fluids for moving robots around also as the battery. The liquid has electrical potential that we use to power the robot. So we've called it robot blood and now we recently published something called the robot heart which is a stretchable pump that behaves it's electrical, not the same way our body works there's no muscle.
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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