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Soft robots look to new environments

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These non-standard automatons appear best suited for applications under water and in space.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 4
        April 2019
        136 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3321370
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