Introducing the Octobot

Harvard University · 345K views · 2016 · 1:35

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Why the open web links it

Demonstrates the first fully soft, autonomous robot, a breakthrough in soft robotics and human-machine interaction.

Linked by 13 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including harvard.edu, harvardmagazine.com, laughingsquid.com, scientias.nl, freethink.com.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Octobot (robot).