Life at the Lab: Soft Robots

In Langley’s makerspace lab, researchers are developing a series of soft robot actuators to investigate the viability of soft robotics in space exploration and assembly. By design, the actuator has chambers, or air bladders, that expand and compress based on the amount of air in them. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/2V08IyR
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[@rbdel]

This is very cool, but once the internet gets a hold of this technology, we can predict where it's going to go before Mars.

[@soumavadas4593]

This reminds me of baymax. Flexible robot cool

[@earthsongeb]

Reminds me of Dr.Olivia Octavius's robot tentacles from into the spiderverse

[@archivedaccount2049]

This is so cool
I look forward to whatever robotics has in store in the future

[@deltacx1059]

So if there are soft systems and hard systems then I guess a human would be a firm system.

[@vyrethryoki6826]

This is the kind of outside the box thinking I love to see. You're creating a really flexible system with human interaction in mind. On top of that it seems to have the positive effect of also being more easy to store than a rigid system. Especially advantageous with the space constraints in... space.

[@IRIS-hw3uq]

Amazing !
Its like fusion bionic and engineering.

[@TheYavy]

I wish this was alot longer

[@ART-wz8mp]

Wow this looks awesome!

[@AN-wd5nu]

This is incredible. I can imagine these being used on earth as a "second muscle" for helping humans doing tasks.

[@vishank7]

That was awesome!💎

[@mdmusic9067]

Fantastic stuff!

[@RAGNES7]

Is there any source material for reading up on working of these structures?

[@mohammedadetunji926]

If only the world could come together to work on things like this to progress us collectively rather than the disgusting opposite it is today.
Definitely subscribing
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[@nirbhaysingh4360]

Wow that's so cool concept

[@eklim2034]

imagine astronaut can move around Mars by simply lying down and let her soft robotic suit does the locomotion

[@austntexan]

Now this is cool!

[@nawawimohshin]

Awesome!

[@pdxbound81]

Don't jet pilots use pressure suits to keep from passing out at high speeds? I bet your soft robot could calculate the exact pressure needed for the individual and adjust accordingly. That would be really cool.

[@hotends]

Very nice 3d printing use case.

[@cambeditcambedit1441]

So...can this give my thing more power to lift, or even walk?

[@thecloud7587]

Would soft robots be less expensive to ship as well because their parts are far less dense

[@TechsScience]

This is the new technology in robotics

[@suatbozac442]

Thanks

[@ReekieRoo2]

Won't the air bubbles used to move the robots pop in space, like on a moon rock or something?

[@ZackSlaughterPK]

Amazing

[@andredoumad]

This is the future of robotics

[@Mario29615]

Love it

[@abyteuser6297]

Big Hero 6 in the making

[@FernandoCorreaDominguez]

Awesome

[@froquede]

nice!

[@grgreeshgyaan]

Great and smart

[@shivangraisurana9955]

Pretty genius

[@x8xchanel303]

I want to work there

[@anilsankarv2448]

Next will be protoype of human and wires will be nerves

[@aZaamBie135]

Interesting

[@AnthonyAllenJr]

Cool.

[@elmaikitofficial]

Cool

[@nyoongggmmgg9825]

Won't the air pressure on moon or mars differs from the earth's?

[@swapnilkurve4677]

How can I internship at NASA robotics system 🤔

[@spaia]

Wow

[@SCG77]

Fun!

[@ManjitSingh-kr6mi]

Soft robot is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕

[@lairheron9489]

Wild

[@nigil987]

Basically big hero 6

[@justintimeleave1360]

it looks like you can use machine learning to determine the best shape for such soft robots

[@CSparzo]

Neat

[@kutepov99]

Can that explode?

[@sergeyzakk2730]

👍

[@retrorobodog]

cool :):):)

[@vierspartan117]

c: soo lovely

[@josemendiola4957]

❤️👍

[@RealRobotZer0]

They should build mars spaceship entirely on the moon. From materials from the moon.
Isn't the moon a good place for a shipyard?

[@Dr_Crypto21]

I have worked on soft robotics here in Pakistan. It was the first project in Pakistan!

[@joaquinarias8534]

These systems are the future.

[@aaronk4266]

😯👌

[@jatigre1]

Great concept but, I don't think you'd actually need any assistance in low gravity to move almost anything. The whole point of going off planet in a low gravity environment is that you instantly become a super human being. Imagine, sports on the Moon or Mars.

[@noahwilliams8996]

What if it explodes because of the vacuum?

[@ploidz]

Spider-Verse Olivia Octavius

[@jusufagung]

Baymax ....

[@teknikkemal07]

😲😲😀😀👍👍

[@shadyjesusrodriguez.2821]

Lookiiinnnn noice nasaa

[@mikewalker2613]

I want to go to mars.

[@myman8336]

🤓

[@princeedhwardhezmi6469]

:o

[@stefanleo8963]

it's cool and eww and the same time

[@filminger5096]

Awesome

[@queenrao17]

Wow

[@crispybaguette8670]

Cool

[@MelaRulez]

Awesome

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Wow

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Wow

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Wow