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Open AccessA single motor-driven continuum robot that can be designed to deform into a complex shape with curvature distribution
This paper proposes a method to deform a continuum robot into a complex shape with distributed curvature using a single motor drive. This continuum robot can be deformed to a desired shape by placing tendon gu...
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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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Conversion of Elastic Energy Stored in the Legs of a Hexapod Robot into Propulsive Force
The conversion of elastic energy due to ground reaction force into propulsive force can help increase the locomotion speed of a legged robot. Many legged robots inspired by animals have been developed, which u...
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Evaluation of 3D-Bioprinted Materials and Culture Methods Toward Actuator Driven by Skeletal Muscle Cells
Soft actuators powered by skeletal muscle cells provide robots flex...
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Modelling Oscillatory Behaviour of Slime Mould
Behavioral diversity is one of the universal features for all animals but missing in artificial machines. Behavioral diversity enables animals to explore alternative behaviors and avoid to getting stuck in a d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Swimming Machine Driven by the Deformation of a Sheet-Like Body Inspired by Polyclad Flatworms
A swimming robot driven by the deformation of a sheet-like body was developed, inspired by polyclad flatworms. The robot consists of a soft oval rubber sheet and three motors. Two motors operate the lateral fl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A True-Slime-Mold-Inspired Fluid-Filled Robot Exhibiting Versatile Behavior
Behavioral diversity is one essential feature of living systems in order to exhibit adaptive behavior in hostile and dynamically changing environments. However, classical engineering approaches strive to avoid...
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Fully decentralized control of a soft-bodied robot inspired by true slime mold
Animals exhibit astoundingly adaptive and supple locomotion under real world constraints. In order to endow robots with similar capabilities, we must implement many degrees of freedom, equivalent to animals, i...
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A Modular Robot Driven by Protoplasmic Streaming
Self-reconfigurable robots are expected to exhibit various interesting abilities, such as adaptivity and fault tolerance. These remarkable abilities originate from the fact that their mechanical systems intrin...
