Robots made entirely out of soft materials could be real game-changers. They could integrate more easily with human activities ranging from the ordinary to the exceptional. A group of engineers at Carnegie Mellon University is working to make such soft robots a hard reality. PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated, Written, & Produced by Ari Daniel Videography Ari Daniel Original Footage © WGBH Educational Foundation 2014 MEDIA CREDITS Balloon Artist Sara Krakauer, Globe Twisting Balloons Music APM iSkin Video Weigel et al. (MPI-Informatics & CMU) Robot Photograph Wikimedia Commons/BMW Werk Leipzig Heart Image Wikimedia Commons/ZooFari IMAGE (main image: Robot and human hands) Ari Daniel

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