Giving robots touch allows them to be gentle and to handle things that come in many shapes and materials.

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The gentle vegetarians eat up to 45 pounds a day of things like bamboo shoots, wild celery and berries.

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They combine a demiurgic, Caligari-like mastery over their creations with the gentle dream archeology of Joseph Cornell: their puppets look less like things invented than like things discovered.

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