Facebook is quietly developing ‘soft robotics’ — flexible robots that move and act like living organisms (FB)

Facebook has several open job listings for PhD students in "soft robotics."
Soft robotics is an experimental field of robotics that draws inspiration from biology, from lizard tongues to octopuses.
It focuses on building flexible robots using next-generation materials that can adapt to real-world environments.
Facebook has quietly been hiring in the field for a year, and the roles don't appear to be related to any publicly announced hardware projects at the company.Facebook is trying to figure o