Sensors and actuators for 'humanoid' robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 567-584

  Dario, Paolo ^a   Laschi, Cecilia ^a   Guglielmelli, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

HUMANOID ROBOTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 0031672973     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855397X00083     Document Type: Article

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