researcher in the laser lab (IMAGE)

Rice University

researcher in the laser lab

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Elizabeth Blackert, a Rice University doctoral alumna, said the liquid crystal elastomer used for the robotic arm “bends toward laser light like a flower stem does toward sunlight.”
 

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Photos by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University.

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