Yale researchers create robotic skins that can animate everyday objects

Lee Bell
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Could be used for everything from search-and-rescue robots to wearable tech

Yale researchers have developed a form of robotic technology that can animate the inanimate and turn everyday objects into robots. This new "Robotic Skins" technology flips the motion that robo...

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