Design and development of a soft robot with crawling and grasping capabilities

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4950-4955

  Calisti, Marcello ^a   Arienti, Andrea ^a   Renda, Federico ^a   Levy, Guy ^b   Hochner, Binyamin ^b   Mazzolai, Barbara ^c   Dario, Paolo ^a   Laschi, Cecilia ^a  

^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

ROBOTS; SILICONES;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FULL BODY; LIMB STRUCTURES; NEW MECHANISMS; SOFT MATERIAL; SOFT ROBOT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84864470587     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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