In this episode of Research Matters, Cornell University mechanical engineering professor Robert Shepherd explores a radically reimagined future of robotics – one where sustainable, self-repairing machines partner with biology rather than imitate it, opening new possibilities in medicine, environmental monitoring, agriculture and beyond. Shepherd explains how biohybrid robots use living cells as actuators, how mycelium can function as both building material and sensing network, and how volumetric 3D printing allows entire soft robots, complete with internal skeletons, to be created in a single step. Watch here.
