Soft robot actuators heal themselves

ScienceDaily
Jul 27, 2020, 11:46 am121 pts
Repeated activity wears on soft robotic actuators, but these machine's moving parts need to be reliable and easily fixed. Now a team of researchers has a biosynthetic polymer, patterned after squid ring teeth, that is self-healing and biodegradable, creating a material not only good for actuators, but also for…

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