We've updated the link from http://sciencenewsjournal.com/new-soft-robot-completely-auto... to the Harvard release page. There was also a previous submission which got a good number of upvotes, but not much discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341843.

Yeah! I couldn't even find a citation or hyperlink to the relevant article on the "sciencenewsjournal" page.