Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators

Popcorn is a cheap, biodegradable way to actuate a robot (once)It’s not that often that I can steal the title of a paper and use it for a blog article that people will actually read, but I think “Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators” totally works, so credit for that to Steven Ceron at Cornell University who’s the first author on this paper, presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May. Let’s see what else I can steal from it:Pop