In 2025, as robots dazzle everywhere from daily walks to dance floors, Professor Jiang Hanqing and his team at Westlake University unveiled a biodegradable origami robot in Science Advances—a modular creation made of cotton and pig skin that bends, twists, and almost fully decomposes in soil within eight weeks. Source Paper Link
This eco-friendly ‘arm’ could be edible, customizable like LEGO, and, with upgrades like pneumatic power, pave the way for robots that don’t just end up as scrap but enrich the soil instead.
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