A new bioinspired earthworm robot for future underground exploration

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) in Genoa has realized a new soft robot inspired by the biology of earthworms, which is able to crawl thanks to soft actuators that elongate or squeeze, when air passes through them or is drawn out.

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