image: A quadruped robot with soft thermally actuated "limbs." This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 19th, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Huang at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., and colleagues was titled, "Chasing Biomimetic Locomotion Speeds: Creating Untethered Soft Robots with Shape Memory Alloy Actuators." view more
Credit: [Credit: Huang <em>et al., Sci. Robot</em>. 3, eaau7557 (2018)]