Mechanism as mind: What tensegrities and caterpillars can teach us about soft robotics

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 506-512

  Rieffel, John ^a   Trimmer, Barry ^a   Lipson, Hod ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETONS; HUMAN HANDS; MANDUCA SEXTA; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; MOST LIKELY; SOFT ROBOT; SOFT ROBOTICS; TENSEGRITIES; UNDERACTUATED;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77951448527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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