A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change

Dylan S. Shah, Joshua P. Powers, Liana G. Tilton, Sam Kriegman, Josh C. Bongard, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

Abstract: Inspired by many examples in nature where organisms change shape to concur environments, there is much interest in designing robots that are capable of shape change. Shah et al. demonstrate a method for automatically discovering shape and gait changes for soft robots that can adapt to different terrains.