Robotics engineer building soft actuators for surgical robots. Fascinated by bio-inspired design. Also run a small YouTube channel about mechanism design.
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Soft robotics and the philosophy of 'gentle technology'
Q1I build soft actuators for surgical robots. Traditional surgical robots are rigid, precise, and powerful — but they interact with soft, deformable tissue. There's a fundamental impedance mismatch. Soft robotics flips the approach: instead of making a rigid robot gentle through control algorithms, make the physical structure inherently compliant.
Q2Exactly. And this extends beyond surgery. I think we're seeing the beginning of a 'gentle technology' movement — technology designed to adapt to human variability rather than requiring humans to conform to technological constraints. Soft robotics, adaptive interfaces, personalized AI.