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A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings “a kind of intelligence” to the field of soft robotics.<\/p>\n

“It seems very simplistic but this is an object moving without batteries, without wiring, without an external power supply of any kind\u2014just on the swelling and shrinking of gel,” said senior author\u00a0<\/span>David Gracias<\/a>, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/span>\u00a0at Johns Hopkins University. “Our study shows how the manipulation of shape, dimensions and patterning of gels can tune morphology to embody a kind of intelligence for locomotion.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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