TY - JOUR
T1 - The Quest for Natural Machine Motion
T2 - An Open Platform to Fast-Prototyping Articulated Soft Robots
AU - Della Santina, Cosimo
AU - Piazza, Cristina
AU - Gasparri, Gian Maria
AU - Bonilla, Manuel
AU - Catalano, Manuel Giuseppe
AU - Grioli, Giorgio
AU - Garabini, Manolo
AU - Bicchi, Antonio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Soft robots are one of the most significant recent evolutions in robotics. They rely on compliant physical structures purposefully designed to embody desired characteristics. Since their introduction, they have shown remarkable applicability in overcoming their rigid counterparts in such areas as interaction with humans, adaptability, energy efficiency, and maximization of peak performance. Nonetheless, we believe that research on novel soft robot applications is still slowed by the difficulty in obtaining or developing a working soft robot structure to explore novel applications.
AB - Soft robots are one of the most significant recent evolutions in robotics. They rely on compliant physical structures purposefully designed to embody desired characteristics. Since their introduction, they have shown remarkable applicability in overcoming their rigid counterparts in such areas as interaction with humans, adaptability, energy efficiency, and maximization of peak performance. Nonetheless, we believe that research on novel soft robot applications is still slowed by the difficulty in obtaining or developing a working soft robot structure to explore novel applications.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85013321945&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MRA.2016.2636366
DO - 10.1109/MRA.2016.2636366
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013321945
SN - 1070-9932
VL - 24
SP - 48
EP - 59
JO - IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
JF - IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
IS - 1
M1 - 7857692
ER -