Soft Robotics: new perspectives for robot bodyware and control

The remarkable advances of robotics in the last fifty years, which represent an incredible wealth of knowledge, are based on the fundamental assumption that robots are chains of rigid links. The use of soft materials in robotics, driven not only by new scientific paradigms (biomimetics, morphologica...

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Main Authors: Cecilia eLaschi, Matteo eCianchetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00003/full