Inflatable Things

I have previously written about inflatable tubes as a means to realising a von Braun wheel. The idea of using inflatables is clearly old. Learning about Saul Griffith’s robotics work in this area has been fun to see when I started thinking about using inflatables for space robotic applications in the summer of 2024. Here are two interesting pieces of media from Saul Griffith.

  1. A Wired piece on him and Otherlab.
  2. A second is his talk (at Google X?):

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