The deformatron robot: A Biologically inspired homogeneous modular robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2527-2531

  Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Embodied artificial intelligence; Modular robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BONE; GRAVITATION; MUSCLE; TENDONS;

DEFORMATRON ROBOT; EMBODIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; REAL WORLD TASK ENVIRONMENTS; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33845643119     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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