Smarter materials for smarter robots

Sci Robot. 2021 Apr 28;6(53):eabh4443. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abh4443.

Cecilia Laschi^{1

2}, Robert J Wood^{1

2}

¹ Cecilia Laschi is a Professor at the National University of Singapore. She has been Professor at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, currently on leave. She was the founder of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft. Email: mpeclc@nus.edu.sg.
² Robert J. Wood is the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Email: rjwood@seas.harvard.edu.

Abstract

Advances in materials science will blur the boundaries between robots and the materials from which they are composed.