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New Material Could Lead to Self-Healing 'Skin' for Soft Robots

Visual of the self healing material.
Today, we think of robots as rigid, clunky and metallic.

But imagine a day in the future when robots are soft and human-like, with skin-like material covering muscles that move just like ours.

That future may be closer than you realize, thanks to new joint research from ²ÊÃñ±¦µä mechanical engineering assistant professor research group and the University of California Riverside...