Squishy Robot Fingers: A Breakthrough for Underwater Science | National Geographic

we’re in the northern part of the Red
Sea and the reason we’re here is we’re
trying to test out our squishy robot
fingers for the for the first time in a
real so we tested these squishy fingers
in a swimming pool and now we wanted to
put them to the true test we wanted to
try them underwater in one of the
richest oral environments that we have
squishy fingers are making a robot hand
making it out of rubber the idea came up
when I’m that’s David and he showed me
these fantastic videos of him you know
going underwater with his robots but the
hands that he was using were meant for
oil exploration and so they were
basically just destroying everything
that they touched so I said you know
what we can make
squishy fingers it’s a nice grip not I
think this is gonna work great this area
here is one of the richest coral
environments that we have these squishy
fingers do work well on land but do they
work well under the water we’re gonna
find out soon
we can grab that that’ll be interesting
cuz it’s very looks very fragile
oh I do it grab it you’re in there
swishy roll my fingers
from this we could do the entire genome
we could sequence out proteins this is
all we need it’s super exciting I mean
we’re basically in the first steps but
you could just see just the amount of
potential that they have