Notre Dame professor develops plant-inspired robots

Gabby Beechert | Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Margaret Coad was working toward her doctorate degree at Stanford in 2017 when inspiration struck a postdoctoral researcher in her lab — a brand new way for researchers to create deployable structures, navigate confined spaces and apply forces, such as lifting people up which could save someone’s life one day.  The inspiration: plants. The device: