Researchers successfully demonstrate soft robotic grippers able to collect underwater specimens During a 2014 talk on his exploration of deep-sea coral reefs, marine biologist David . Gruber showed a video of an ROV's clunky robotic "hands" collecting fragile specimens of coral and sponges from the ocean floor. Harvard University, USA, engineer and roboticist Robert Wood was in the audience - the two scientists were being recognised as emerging explorers by the National Geographic Society - and a lightbulb went off.
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