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Nature already solved one of robotics’ hardest problems. Festo’s BionicMotionRobot replaces rigid joints with 12 pneumatic bellows, so the arm can bend and twist like an octopus tentacle. It only weighs about 3 kg but can lift roughly the same amount. Sometimes the best engineering just copies what already... show more

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