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PneuBots, | International Design Awards Winners

PneuBots

UniversityHarvard Graduate School of Design

Lead DesignersHye Jun Youn

Design TeamAli Shtarbanov, Jooyoung Youn

Project LocationCambridge, MA, USA

Creditshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTQMYER0c5c

Prize(s)Gold in Education / Educational Tools, Gold in Education / Classroom Products

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Entry Description

PneuBots is a soft robot-building educational kit for amateurs. When injected with compressed air, each of its inflatable modules can perform different actions: bending, folding and twisting. These modules can be assembled into basic forms of shape-changing and interactive soft robots.The kit can serve as a first step for creators without engineering backgrounds to learn about the world of soft robotics and its actuation mechanisms.