©SHUTTERSTOCK.COM/GIOVANNI CANCEMI A Tapered Soft Robotic Oropharyngeal Swab for Throat Testing A New Way to Collect Sputa Samples By Zhexin Xie, Bohan Chen, Jiaqi Liu, Feiyang Yuan, Zhuyin Shao, Hui Yang, August G. Domel, Jingfeng Zhang, and Li Wen Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2020.3044914 Date of current version: 25 January 2021 90 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * MARCH 2021 1070-9932/21©2021IEEEhttp://www.SHUTTERSTOCK.COM/GIOVANNI