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The most foreboding sentence in the video embedded below–in terms of the obvious teledildonic<\/a> applications of this tech–has to be: “Predicting the behavior of soft robotic devices is difficult.” Yikes!
\nFor reals, though, there is *a lot* of legit awesome here (both in mainstream R&D and homebrew garage mad-science)–as well as the only legitimately feasibly use of 3D printing I’ve yet seen suggested[*]
\nHarvard Makes Soft Robotics Open-Source | Motherboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Robots, the classic symbol of the techno-future, are now bopping around in the suburban garages of most anyone with $40 or so to spend on parts and with a bit of programming acumen, or at least the desire\/ability to learn a bit of code.
\nThanks to a new toolkit released by researchers at Harvard University, those garage robot tinkerers can now expand into the realm of “soft” robots, e.g. robots made to squish and deform like mechanical slugs or eels.<\/div>\n