The Science of Soft Robots
Design, Materials and Information Processing
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Creating and modulating rhythms by controlling the physics of the body
The motion behaviors of vertebrates require the correct coordination of the muscles and of the body limbs even for the most stereotyped ones like the rhythmical patterns. It means that the neural circuits have...
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Open AccessInsect wing 3D printing
Insects have acquired various types of wings over their course of evolution and have become the most successful terrestrial animals. Consequently, the essence of their excellent environmental adaptability and ...
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Open AccessSoft Actuation and Compliant Mechanisms in Humanoid Robots
We aimed to reveal the impact of soft robotics, which has developed in the last decade, on humanoid robotics research. Although humanoid robots are usually classified as hard robotics, softness should be integ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autonomous Wheeled Locomotion on Irregular Terrain with Tactile Sensing
Adopting the concept of the tactile wheel, which considers the interaction between the wheel and the ground, this paper simulates reinforcement learning to show the usefulness of tactile sensing for autonomous...
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Chapter
Soft Manipulation and Locomotion
Soft mechanisms bring a new twist to traditional robotics challenges of object gras**, manipulation, and locomotion. Soft robotic hands are a topic of growing industrial application. A major example of a sof...
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Introduction
The first section examines soft robots from five perspectives: (1) How does their configuration differ from conventional robots? (2) What tasks can soft robots perform that conventional robots cannot? (3) Wher...
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