Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

Although robotic micromanipulation using microtweezers has been widely explored, the
current manipulation throughput hardly exceeds one operation per second. Increasing the …

Tendon-driven parallel continuum robots (PCR) consist of multiple individual continuous
kinematic chains, that are actuated in bending utilizing tendons routed along their …

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

Research on continuum parallel robots has been essentially devoted to the computation of
their geometricostatic models and of their performance in terms of workspace size, accuracy …

In this letter, a novel spatial parallel continuum robot is proposed. It is composed of three
tendon-actuated continuum robots as kinematic chains that are coupled at a common end …

Continuum robots are able of in-situ inspection tasks in cluttered environments and narrow
passages, where conventional robots and human operators cannot intervene. However …

There is a growing interest on the study of continuum parallel robots (CPRs) due to their
higher stiffness and better dynamics capacities than serial continuum robots (SCRs) …

Continuum parallel robots (CPRs) comprise several flexible beams connected in parallel to
an end-effector. They combine the inherent compliance of continuum robots with the high …

This article unifies the approaches of kinematic and static modeling, and singularity analysis
for tendon-driven parallel continuum robots under constant curvature as well as pseudo …