Robots made entirely out of soft materials could be real game-changers. They could integrate more easily with human activities ranging from the ordinary to the exceptional.

A group of engineers at Carnegie Mellon University is working to make such soft robots a hard reality.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Narrated, Written, & Produced by Ari Daniel

Videography Ari Daniel

Original Footage © WGBH Educational Foundation 2014

MEDIA CREDITS Balloon Artist Sara Krakauer, Globe Twisting Balloons

Music APM

iSkin Video Weigel et al. (MPI-Informatics & CMU)

Robot Photograph Wikimedia Commons/BMW Werk Leipzig

Heart Image Wikimedia Commons/ZooFari

IMAGE (main image: Robot and human hands) Ari Daniel