Human-robot coexistence has become an important trend of the new generation of robots.
Both rigid structures and soft structures have their own limitations in certain application …

Numerous recent advances in robotics have been inspired by the biological principle of
tensile integrity—or “tensegrity”—to achieve remarkable feats of dexterity and resilience …

To better understand the role of tensegrity structures in biological systems and their
application to robotics, the Dynamic Tensegrity Robotics Lab at NASA Ames Research …

The Spherical Underactuated Planetary Exploration Robot ball (SUPERball) is an ongoing
project within NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Robotics Group and the Dynamic …

The growth of underwater robotic applications in ocean exploration and research has
created an urgent need for effective tactile sensing. Here, we propose an underwater 3 …

Tensegrity robots, composed of rigid rods connected by elastic cables, have a number of
unique properties that make them appealing for use as planetary exploration rovers …

Sampling-based methods are widely adopted solutions for robot motion planning. The
methods are straightforward to implement, effective in practice for many robotic systems. It is …

In this paper, we present the system design and initial testing of SUPERball v2, a completely
re-designed 2-meter spherical six-bar tensegrity robot designed to survive high-speed …

Soft spherical tensegrity robots are novel steerable mobile robotic platforms that are
compliant, lightweight, and robust. The geometry of these robots is suitable for rolling …

This paper reviews recent developments in the emerging field of resilient robots and the
related robots that share common concerns with them, such as self-reconfigurable robots …