
Annika Santhanam
- Feb 9
Baymax in Real Life? How Soft Robotics Might Change the Future
The word soft robotics seems a bit like an oxymoron. How can a robot be soft? Some of the only soft robots you might have seen were animated figures on TV - like Baymax from Big Hero 6! But this type of robotics is developing further into reality, and like Baymax, will become incredibly helpful for society. What Are Soft Robotics? Soft Robotics are robots that mirror the biological movements and makeup of living creatures, known as biomimicry. These robots are extremely diffe