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Swiss researchers have recently developed and outlined some ideas for "Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuators for Edible Robotics." These squishy air-powered robot fingers are made up of a mix of gelatin, glycerin, and water, making it edible and biodegradable. Mainly used to handle delicate items such as food, robots built completely with this tech could be used as "prey robots" as described by the Verge.
Terminator building process starts here.
None of these functions are likely to come to fruition in the near future, but the researchers at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems are dreaming big. They even suggest that rather than humans eating the edible robots, the robots could eat themselves — with the gelatin providing an emergency source of energy for a struggling bot. Typical robots: always taking food out of humans’ mouths.
Terminator building process starts here.
None of these functions are likely to come to fruition in the near future, but the researchers at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems are dreaming big. They even suggest that rather than humans eating the edible robots, the robots could eat themselves — with the gelatin providing an emergency source of energy for a struggling bot. Typical robots: always taking food out of humans’ mouths.