Georgia Tech’s Soft Robotics Flips the Script on ‘The Terminator’
October 27, 2025
By Michelle Azriel
Hong Yeo, the G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Professor in the Woodruff School, is reimagining robotics with AI-powered artificial muscles that move — and heal — like the human body. His team’s soft, adaptive materials power a new prosthetic glove that restores strength, motion, and freedom. It’s the opposite of The Terminator — machines built to help, not replace, us.