A cloudy yellow rectangular figure about seven centimeters long wobbles from side to side, waving its gelatinous arms as it makes a friendly greeting, its body resting inside a mug."Hello. I was looking forward to speaking with you today," says the figure, which was successfully developed by Yoshihiro Nakata, an associate professor of robotics at the University of Electro-Communications and his team of researchers.The wobbly character is not just an apple-flavored gummy candy but also the world's first "edible robot." While the edible part of the robot consists only of a gelatin-based chewa…READ FULL ARTICLE
