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New type of soft, growing robot created
Date: July 20, 2017
Source: Stanford University
Summary: A newly developed vine-like robot can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. It could prove useful in search and rescue operations and medical applications.
The vinebot is a tube of soft material that grows in one direction.
Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service
Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight cylinder. They place the device at the entrance of the debris and flip a switch. From one end of the cylinder, a tendril extends into the mass of stones and dirt, like a fast-climbing vine. A camera at the tip of the tendril gives rescuers a view of the otherwise unreachable places beneath the rubble.
(Available in: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170720155311.htm.
Access in: 10/08/2017.)
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