— Humanoid robots as assistance or educational robots is an important research topic in the field of robotics. Especially the communication of those robots with a human operator...
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
— In applications such as space and surgical robotics, the use of thin, lightweight manipulators and cable-driven endeffectors results in flexibility of the manipulator. In bila...
Abstract—The development of human-robot interaction scenarios is a strongly situation-dependent as well as an extremely dynamic task. Humans interacting with the robot directly r...
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen