Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.

Chris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.

Atkeson is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh.

He works with soft robotics, which as its name suggests, is predicated on a simple challenge: how to build robots out of soft materials. For robots to effectively operate in our world, they’re going to have to be as squishy as we are.

This video is part of Machines With Brains, a series about what it means to be human in a world that’s increasingly filled with robots.

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