Octopus-inspired robot “hands” delicate enough to grasp a tomato

Soft Robotics wants to get its speciality robot hands all over your food. Last week, the year-old startup announced a partnership with a California company that makes sorters, washers, and chopping equipment for produce manufactures that ship cut fruit and bagged and washed greens to stores like Costco.

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Good partnerships starting to flow to some soft robotics companies. It’s only surprising that it’s taken this long for produce industry to realize what was out there.

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Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founder of Women in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI.

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founder of Women in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI.