Mar 19, 2013
Soft autonomous earthworm robot at MIT (by MITNewsOffice) Found through this post on BLDGBLOG. Excerpt:
But soft robots are also getting closer to becoming what are, in effect, mechanically agile medical devices that can "monitor your insides," in the words of Sangbae Kim, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, as reprinted by Popular Science, sneaking around inside your body like an earthworm.