What has the ability to move and show its colors, is made only of silicone rubber and manufactured at the millimeter scale? A soft robotic peacock spider. Researchers have combined three different manufacturing techniques to create a novel origami-inspired soft material microfabrication process that goes beyond what existing approaches can achieve at this small scale.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Robotics

 

https://wyss.harvard.edu/soft-multi-functional-robots-get-really-small