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The Future of Soft Robotics

A lot of sex robots, I wouldn't consider a soft robot because the majority of their functionality is coming from the hard components underneath that are just covered in a humanoid layer that's squishy. So if I had my gripper blow up into the shape of a claw and be able to surround whatever it wants to pick up, that's more of a soft robotic. Well, and you mentioned stretchability and flexibility and squishiness,. but setting aside squishiness, the other two I can do with paper and flexible circuits. At what point does that become soft robotics?

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