Bamboo Tensegrity Robot ’Shi’

Imagine a new generation of shape changing robots with soft bodies, a new species of robots with ’intelligent’ bodies, not stiff legs, limbs and torsos anymore like today, but robots with bio- structural analogies realised in their mechanics, locomotion and architecture. That means that the structure itself has somekind of ’intelligence’, when force stress from outside is applied it absorbs shocks like a cell in nature, by spreading the tension into the whole framework and its components. A great starting p