Soft robotics: new perspectives for robot bodyware and control

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Laschi, Cecilia ^a   Cianchetti, Matteo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomimetic robotics; Biorobotics; Morphological computation; Smart materials; Soft robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

BIO-ROBOTICS; BIOMIMETIC ROBOTICS; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM; SOFT ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 85032533203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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