Soft Edible Robot: A Sweet Treat with a Purpose

While there are many useful questions to ask when encountering a new robot, “can I eat it” is generally not one of them. I say ‘generally,’ because edible robots are actually a thing—and not just edible in the sense that you can technically swallow them and suffer both the benefits and consequences, but ingestible, where you can take a big bite out of the robot, chew it up, and swallow it.

Yum.

But so far these ingestible robots have included a very please-don’t-ingest-this asterisk: the motor…