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There's a subfield called soft robotics, which Baymax from the film Big Hero 6 was inspired by: http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2014/october/octobe... .

I find it hard to take his work seriously. Here are detailed criticisms of some of his other papers: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana...

Google used a Dutch auction in their IPO. But then again they are pretty obsessed with auctions. There is some research on auctions for IPOs, e.g. http://www.nber.org/papers/w16214…

It's even possible to write simply about complex topics. Nobel Prize announcements are especially good at this, see e.g. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20…