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Robots are no more solid and cold machines as we’ve ever known. From Harvard University, the new robot is an ambidextrous automation featuring flexible polymers. Its inspiration comes from starfish, worms and squid, and thus the robot is built with inflatable chambers within its legs and central spine to help it move.

These chambers can change their shapes, and they will bend the robot’s skin when filled with air, due to which the robot would then make certain actions. The current robot is 18cm long and is capable of lifting one leg off the ground when other three legs ate on the ground. It moves fast too, crawling through a 2 cm high gap within one minute. Apart from those, the robot can even help to accomplish some difficulty works usually finished by human hands.