A Dexterous Tip-extending Robot with Variable-length Shape-locking
Sicheng Wang,Ruotong Zhang,David A. Haggerty,Nicholas D. Naclerio,Elliot W. Hawkes,Sicheng Wang,Ruotong Zhang,David A. Haggerty,Nicholas D. Naclerio,Elliot W. Hawkes
Soft, tip-extending "vine" robots offer a unique mode of inspection and manipulation in highly constrained environments. For practicality, it is desirable that the distal end of the robot can be manipulated freely, while the body remains stationary. However, in previous vine robots, either the shape of the body was fixed after growth with no ability to manipulate the distal end, or the whole body ...
