Air-powered soft robots for K-12 classrooms

This paper outlines the development of an affordable, sustainable K-12 outreach program based pneumatically-powered soft robots. Recent advances in low-cost 3D printers have helped make these robots available to hobbyists and K-12 classrooms. This paper is intended to serve as a reference for interested students, parents and educators, and a model for other researchers to develop similar outreach programs.

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