AU 2011: Otherlab’s Saul Griffith, Part 1 – Pneubotics Yields Soft Robots

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When we saw mad scientist Saul Griffith take the stage at Autodesk University’s Technology Mainstage, we knew we had to score a video interview. (We’d written about him here and here but had never met the man.) Among other companies, Griffith co-founded Otherlab, an “Engineering, energy, education, math, computation, design” firm with a host of inventions that are probably going to change the world. One of Otherlab’s current projects involves pioneering “Pneubotics”—soft, inflatable robots actuated by compressed air.

Here’s the basic idea:

That was just a finger. Here’s an entire arm and what it can do:

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