Meet the octobot, the first robot to be made entirely from soft materials. Powered by a chemical reaction and controlled by a fluidic logic circuit, it heralds a generation of soft robots that might surpass conventional machines. See Letter p.451
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Mazzolai, B., Mattoli, V. Generation soft. Nature 536, 400–401 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/536400a
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