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The Sentient Code: AI and Robotics · September 17 · 20 min

The Soft Robot That Fixes Itself While Flying

A lamp stays on. A rubber ring starts twisting. Then it jumps, fixes itself in the air, and does it again. This episode sits with a new PNAS soft robot that turns heat into a repeating leap—and asks what “autonomous” means when the program is a bent tail, not a chip. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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A lamp stays on. A rubber ring starts twisting. Then it jumps, fixes itself in the air, and does it again.

This episode sits with a new PNAS soft robot that turns heat into a repeating leap—and asks what “autonomous” means when the program is a bent tail, not a chip.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

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