Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots

Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitational and other external loadings. Thin-stemmed climbing plants f...

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Main Authors: James Gallentine, Michael B. Wooten, Marc Thielen, Ian D. Walker, Thomas Speck, Karl Niklas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2020.00118/full