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06 December 2021 | Stuttgart

Soft Functional Materials for the Next Generation of Robots

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In a Comment for Nature Materials entitled “Shaping the future of robotics through materials innovation” Philipp Rothemund, Postdoc in the Robotic Materials Department, and Christoph Keplinger, Director of the Robotic Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, discuss together with collaborators from Cornell University and MIT issues that currently stand in the way of a wide-spread use of functional soft materials in real-world robotic systems.