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 …

Active soft materials that change shape on demand are of interest for a myriad of
applications, including soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive systems. Despite …

Tensegrity structures have attracted garnered significant attention in soft robotics. However,
current modeling methods lack a unified framework to address forward and inverse solutions …

We described a tensegrity robotic fish and detailed its overall structure, stiffness, and
mechatronics. The main flexible structure of the robotic fish body was composed with a …

Soft robotics can be used not only as a means of achieving novel, more lifelike forms of
locomotion, but also as a tool to understand complex biomechanics through the use of …

Numerous biological studies of body and/or caudal fin fish have powerfully identified that the
fish body's passive properties, such as stiffness and its distribution, contribute to the fish's …

Small, light-weight and low-cost missions will become increasingly important to NASA's
exploration goals for our solar system. Ideally teams of dozens or even hundreds of small …

In this brief, we investigate the parameter optimization issue of a central pattern generator
(CPG) network governed forward and backward swimming for a fully untethered, multijoint …

This letter proposes a particular tensegrity topology for a humanoid hand in which the
motion of the hand is actuated using thin McKibben artificial muscles. The specific actuation …