Pouch motors: Printable soft actuators integrated with computational design

Soft Robotics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 59-70

  Niiyama, Ryuma ^a   Sun, Xu ^b   Sung, Cynthia ^c   An, Byoungkwon ^c   Rus, Daniela ^d   Kim, Sangbae ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 84991769725     PISSN: 21695172     EISSN: 21695180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/soro.2014.0023     Document Type: Article

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