Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kind of machine that TED Fellow Robert Katzschmann's lab builds: soft-bodied robots that imitate natural movements with artificial, silent muscles. He lays out his vision for machines that take on mesmerizing new forms, made of softer and more lifelike materials — and capable of discovering unknown parts of the world.
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What the world can learn from China's innovation playbook | Keyu Jin
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The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI | Tom Graham
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