Abstract: A soft robot includes a main body configured as a tube inverted back inside itself to define a pressure channel, such that when the channel is pressurized, the main body everts, and inverted material everts and passes out of a tip at a distal end of the main body. A fluidization tube for passing air or other fluid through a core of the main body in the fluidization tube, wherein the fluidization tube engages the main body such that the fluidization tube is ejected as the distal end as the main body everts and joins part of the side of the main body as the main body everts and extends its distal tip.

Abstract: A soft robot includes a main body configured as a tube inverted back inside itself to define a pressure channel, such that when the channel is pressurized, the main body everts, and inverted material everts and passes out of a tip at a distal end of the main body. A fluidization tube for passing air or other fluid through a core of the main body in the fluidization tube, wherein the fluidization tube engages the main body such that the fluidization tube is ejected as the distal end as the main body everts and joins part of the side of the main body as the main body everts and extends its distal tip.

Abstract: The invention is directed to methods for determining whether any of group of analytes of interest are present in a sample, and optionally, in at least one subsequent determination, which of the analytes are present. The invention is also directed towards methods for the rapid and efficient determination of the presence or absence of the members of groups of analytes. The invention also contemplates array devices useful for practicing the aforementioned methods, particularly in a screening stage, which comprise fewer array elements than are required to uniquely identify all the analytes.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for multiplexing readouts from multiple hybridization-based assays that each comprise one or more hybridization or annealing steps and one or more enzymatic processing steps. In one aspect, the invention permits simultaneously analysis of a plurality of genomes by separately hybridizing a set of probes with the different genomes to form sets of probe-genome complexes in separate reaction mixtures that are combined and enzymatically treated to form amplifiable probes. From such amplifiable probes, labeled probes are produced so that for each different locus of each different genome there is a unique labeled probe, which are then specifically hybridized to their respective complements on a microarray. In another aspect, labeled oligonucleotide tags are produced from amplifiable probes. The invention is useful in applications of multiplexed hybridization-based assays for measuring characteristics of genomic samples taken from many different individuals.