A Retractable Soft Growing Robot with a Flexible Backbone
Xinyi Pi,Isabella A. Szczech,Lin Cao,Xinyi Pi,Isabella A. Szczech,Lin Cao
Soft-growing robots are emerging with numerous potential applications because of their superior capability of frictionless navigation. However, their success is hindered by their tendency to buckle under the tension required to retract them via inversion. In this paper, we propose a simple and scalable tubular backbone to facilitate retracting the robot body without buckling. With this backbone, c...
