OctArm - a Soft Robotic Manipulator

This video was included in video the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct. 2007, San Diego, CA. See http://www.ece.msstate.edu/wiki/index.php/Robotics_research_group#Conference for related papers.

Continuum robots are biologically-inspired by the invertebrate organisms such as octopus arms and elephant trunks. These robots with a backbone-less structure offer a superior performance in unstructured and cluttered environments such as collapsed buildings, unknown geographical terrain, holes and tunnels. This video features OctArm, a continuum robot that demonstrates its capabilities in whole arm manipulation, biologically-inspired maneuvering, and grasping. The video also depicts a 3D graphical model of OctArm in that can be rendered in real-time in MATLAB's Real-Time Workshop.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• MSU
• robot
• research
• continuum

[bjones462]

Thanks!

[briceavirmo]

awesome