Growing and evolving soft robots

Artificial Life

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 143-162

  Rieffel, John ^a   Knox, Davis ^a   Smith, Schuyler ^a   Trimmer, Barry ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Development; Morphology; Soft robot

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; LOCOMOTIVES; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE;

CO-EVOLUTION; DAMPING COEFFICIENTS; DEGREE OF COUPLING; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FLEXIBLE ROBOTS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SOFT ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; GAIT; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; GAIT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROBOTICS;

EID: 85047686668     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ARTL_a_00101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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