# 450: Swimming Through Nutritious Slurry

- Show: [Embedded.fm](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm)
- Published: 2023-05-25
- Length: 1h 06m
- Episode: 450
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry
- Listen: https://embedded.fm/episodes/450

## Summary

Kari Love, co-author of 'Soft Robotics: A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy, and Flexible Robots' and adjunct professor at NYU, discusses the state of soft robotics, comparing drive systems like FlowIO and Programmable Air. She explores the definition of softness, materials like PolySense conductive dye, and simulation challenges, before pivoting to her course on religious robots, covering topics from holy water dispensers to Mormon transhumanism.

## Chapters

- [0:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=6) Introduction and Lightning Round
- [2:35](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=155) Soft Robotics Book and Field Overview
- [11:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=692) Pneumatic Drive Systems: FlowIO vs Programmable Air
- [20:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=1212) Religious Robots and Theology
- [32:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=1925) Listener Questions: Baymax and Definitions
- [45:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2023-05-25-450-swimming-through-nutritious-slurry#t=2701) Materials, Simulation, and DIY Projects

## Topics

- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- FlowIO (product)
- Programmable Air (product)
- Soft Robotics Toolkit (product)
- Pneuduino (product)
- PolySense (tool)
- SOFA (tool)
- Abaqus (tool)
- DiffPD (tool)
- Adafruit (company)
- PARO (product)
- AIBO (product)
- Theragun (product)
- NinjaFlex (material)

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- [Episode Seventeen – Bioinspired Robots: learning from nature](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2022-06-13-episode-seventeen-bioinspired-robots-learning-from-nature) (Robot Talk)
- [Episode Twenty-Seven: Simon Wanstall](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2022-11-25-episode-twenty-seven-simon-wanstall) (Robot Talk)
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