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The future of cuddly robots

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The field of soft robotics is taking shape and researchers are developing technologies ranging from tattoo-like smartphones to squishy robots that can monitor your health. Ben Gruber reports.

Added on the 14/05/2015 16:26:11 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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