High-tech ‘skins’ turn everyday objects into robots
Changing how the skins wrap around a tube can achieve different types of motion
![robotic skins on a stuffed horse](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/091918_mt_roboticskin_horse_main.gif?fit=860%2C484&ssl=1)
BUILD-A-BOT Wrapping bendable, stretchable skins around inanimate objects — like this stuffed horse, swaddled in robotic skins that move its legs — quickly creates a soft robot.
J.W. Booth et al/Sci Robotics 2018