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May 8, 2009

Squid Robot

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There have been a couple of these recently – robots that do actually look quite… biomimicitous – largely because they’re starting to use soft coverings over exoskeletons I think.

This particular mechanism looks similar to some of Theo Jansen’s machines.

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