When a human touches the robot, the robot changes its movement to avoid collision. Ishikawa, Japan-- In nature, many organisms like octopuses with their flexible tentacles or elephants with their ...

Chinese scientists have made progress in their research on the active obstacle avoidance of continuum robots, a development that has the potential to elevate the intelligence of robot-assisted ...

Magnetic soft continuum robots have received interest in diverse fields because of their active steering and remote control capabilities. However, a more challenging task is the development of ...

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimetres in ...