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Toward Self-Growing Soft Robots Inspired by Plant Roots and Based on Additive Manufacturing Technologies

In this article, we present a novel class of robots that are able to move by growing and building their own structure. In particular, taking inspiration by the growing abilities of plant roots, we designed and developed a plant root-like robot that creates its body through an additive manufacturing...

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Autores principales: Sadeghi, Ali, Mondini, Alessio, Mazzolai, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29062628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/soro.2016.0080