Design and Analysis of a Novel Lightweight, Versatile Soft-rigid Robot
Yongyao Li Ming Congr Dong Liu Yu Du Yongyao Li Ming Congr Dong Liu Yu Du
Soft robots are compliant to wrap large objects and adaptive to unstructured environments, while rigid robots can bend discretely at joints and pinch small objects easily. In this paper, we aim to create a novel robot that can behave like a rigid or soft robot adaptively, without additional stiffness-tunable mechanism. This approach makes the robot lightweight and practical. First, we present the ...