The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Pfeifer;Max Lungarella;Fumiya Iida

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Zurich, Switzerland;University of Zurich;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Soft materials may enable the automation of tasks beyond the capacities of current robotic technology.