Soft Sheet Actuator Generating Traveling Waves Inspired by Gastropod’s Locomotion

“Soft Sheet Actuator Generating Traveling Waves Inspired by Gastropod’s Locomotion,” by Masahiro Watanabe and Hideyuki Tsukagoshi from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore.

[@roidroid]

That's interesting. It means that any other robotic arm that uses extending actuators can do the same, if it has at least 3-segments. There are many robotic tentacles already meet these capabilities, so they will all now have a means of locomotion.

[@lawlerzwtf]

sounds like a hip hop intro hahaha