Parallel-continuum robots combine the advantages of both parallel and continuum robotics.
They offer a compromise between the inherent compliance and slenderness of continuum …

Parallel continuum robots (PCRs) have attracted increasing attention in the robotics
community due to their simplicity in structure, inherence with compliance, and easiness of …

Parallel continuum manipulators (PCMs) have increasingly attracted attentions in the field of
mechanism and robotics, owing to their inherent merits, such as compliance in structure …

Soft robots with a well-balanced performance in terms of dexterity, accuracy, and payload
have a great potential for application. Balancing safe human-robot interaction with operation …

Manipulators with variable stiffness provide more flexibility between safety and performance
when executing delicate tasks. In this paper, a novel planar parallel continuum manipulator …

The six-bar single-loop overconstrained Bricard linkages have been attracting continuous
attention due to their special geometry and remarkable mobility. During the past century, a …

In this article, a new algorithm for the computation of workspace boundaries of continuum
parallel robots (CPRs) is proposed. State-of-the-art techniques are mainly based on time …

Continuum parallel robots (CPRs) are mainly constituted by flexible links arranged in
parallel between a rigid platform and a rigid base, and they promise remarkable …

Geriatric disorders, strokes, spinal cord injuries, trauma, and workplace injuries are all
prominent causes of upper limb disability. A two-degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) end-effector …

Variable stiffness manipulators balance the trade-off between manipulation performance
needing high stiffness and safe human–robot interaction desiring low stiffness. Variable …