A Hybrid Combining Hard and Soft Robots

Soft Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-74

  Stokes, Adam A ^a   Shepherd, Robert F ^a   Morin, Stephen A ^a   Ilievski, Filip ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84993660428     PISSN: 21695172     EISSN: 21695180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/soro.2013.0002     Document Type: Article

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