🤖Robot Talk Episode 168 Spotlights DZP's Stretchable Electronics for Robots

Soft electronics are quietly getting robots a body upgrade

Robots are getting softer, and the electronics inside them are following. Episode 168 of Robot Talk features Zlatka Stoeva, founder and managing director of DZP Technologies, talking about flexible, stretchable, and soft electronics as a path to better robots. If you build robotic hardware, this is worth a listen. Rigid circuit boards are a poor fit for grippers and wearable-style systems that need to bend. DZP's story started with an ARIA-funded project on printed electronics components for a dexterous robot, so this is hardware work, not just theory. The takeaway for engineers: materials choices now shape what your control stack can do. The episode is a single conversation, so don't expect a benchmark table. What you get is a founder's view of where printed and stretchable components are heading, from a Cambridge company whose portfolio spans advanced materials. Pair it with episode 166, which covers evolving robot bodies and brains, for a fuller picture of hardware and learning converging.