When Cecilia Laschi speaks English, she still has the Pisan accent of someone who taught at Sant'Anna for years before moving to Singapore. There, she directs the Soft Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, a group that works on robots made of soft materials, not metal: think rubber hands capable of grasping a tomato without crushing it. For a few years, Cecilia has been working with her colleague Benjamin Tee on a seemingly trivi…
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When Cecilia Laschi speaks English, she still has the Pisan accent of someone who taught at Sant'Anna for years before moving to Singapore. There, she directs the Soft Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, a group that works on robots made of soft materials, not metal: think rubber hands capable of grasping a tomato without crushing it. For a few years, Cecilia has been working with her colleague Benjamin Tee on a seemingly trivi…