Water strider robot

Jiqiren/Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-448

  Wu, Licheng ^a   Sun, Fuchun ^b   Yuan, Haibin ^c  

^a MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bionics; Surface tension; Water strider robot

Indexed keywords

KEY TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; WATER STRIDER ROBOT; WATER STRIDERS; WATER SURFACE;

BIONICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77953800839     PISSN: 10020446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1218.2010.00443     Document Type: Review

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