This squishy robot can catch fish on the fin

Give a robot a fish and he doesn’t know what to do with it. Teach a robot how to catch fish with a gripper-like soft hydrogel and it’s still pretty confused. But now at least it can catch fish. Researchers at MIT have invented a new way to grab fishies out of the the water. The system uses a hydrogel claw that can sense fish and enclose them forcefully and quickly and without… Read More...