Automatic design and manufacture of soft robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 457-466

  Hiller, Jonathan ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Design automation; evolutionary robotics; soft robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR MATERIALS; AUTOMATED DESIGN; AUTOMATIC DESIGN; DESIGN AUTOMATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FREEFORMS; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; MULTI MATERIALS; MULTI-MATERIAL DESIGNS; NEW DESIGN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SOFT MATERIAL; SOFT ROBOT; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FABRICATION; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84859735859     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2172702     Document Type: Article

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