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The Quest for Natural Machine Motion: An Open Platform to Fast-Prototyping Articulated Soft Robots

2017; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mra.2016.2636366

1558-223X

Cosimo Della Santina, Cristina Piazza, Gian Maria Gasparri, Manuel Bonilla, Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli, Manolo Garabini, Antonio Bicchi,

Micro and Nano Robotics

Soft robots are one of the most significant recent evolutions in robotics. They rely on compliant physical structures purposefully designed to embody desired characteristics. Since their introduction, they have shown remarkable applicability in overcoming their rigid counterparts in such areas as interaction with humans, adaptability, energy efficiency, and maximization of peak performance. Nonetheless, we believe that research on novel soft robot applications is still slowed by the difficulty in obtaining or developing a working soft robot structure to explore novel applications.