An octopus-bioinspired solution to movement and manipulation for soft robots

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Calisti, M ^a   Giorelli, M ^a   Levy, G ^b   Mazzolai, B ^c   Hochner, B ^b   Laschi, C ^a   Dario, P ^a,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Center for Micro BioRobotics at SSSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS VULGARIS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OCTOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OCTOPODIFORMES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 80052544136     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/3/036002     Document Type: Article

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