An untethered jumping soft robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 561-566

  Tolley, Michael T ^a,d   Shepherd, Robert F ^b   Karpelson, Michael ^a,d   Bartlett, Nicholas W ^a   Galloway, Kevin C ^a,d   Wehner, Michael ^a,d   Nunes, Rui ^c   Whitesides, George M ^c,d   Wood, Robert J ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATICS;

CONTROL ELECTRONICS; MAXIMUM WORKS; MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY; SOFT ROBOT; SOFT-BODIED ROBOTS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84911469157     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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