Air-Powered Robots Learn to Move and Think on Their Own

Imagine robots that move, sense, and coordinate without a single wire or line of code. Dr Mostafa Mousa and the Oxford team have built soft robots powered entirely by air pressure, where each modular unit acts as muscle, sensor, and logic gate all at once. These machines crawl, sort, and synchronize on their own, hinting at a future where intelligence emerges from the body itself rather than a processor.

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