Jamming as an enabling technology for soft robotics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7642, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Steltz, E ^a   Mozeika, A ^a   Rembisz, J ^a   Corson, N ^a   Jaeger, H M ^b  

^a iRobot G and I Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Jamming; Robotics; Soft

Indexed keywords

1 DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ACTUATION TECHNOLOGIES; BENDING ACTUATORS; DISCRETE NUMBERS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; GRANULAR MEDIUM; LINEAR ACTUATOR; MULTI-DOF; NOVEL CONCEPT; SOFT ROBOT; UNIMORPH;

ACTUATORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TECHNOLOGY;

JAMMING;

EID: 77953278408     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.853182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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