Soft Robot Arm Inspired by the Octopus

By Cecilia Laschi, Matteo Cianchetti, Barbara Mazzolai, Laura Margheri, M. Follador, Paolo Dario. Adv. Robotics, 2012

883 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f414b028e7b8e2b142d32fc18e018f75b114ca96

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Matteo Cianchetti
2. Daniela Rus
3. Robert J. Wood
4. Barbara Mazzolai
5. Katia Bertoldi
6. Conor James Walsh
7. Johannes T. B. Overvelde
8. Carmel Majidi

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Matteo Cianchetti
2. Robert J. Wood
3. Jean-Baptiste Mouret
4. Jeff Clune

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Matteo Cianchetti
2. Barbara Mazzolai
3. Daniela Rus
4. Cecilia Laschi
5. Carmel Majidi
6. Robert J. Wood
7. Johannes T. B. Overvelde
8. Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Citations in the corpus

• Stiffening in Soft Robotics: A Review of the State of the Art (2016, background): “(b) The scheme of the muscle arrangement in the octopus muscular hydrostats from [20]: in (i), four main longitudinal muscles (L) are arranged along the arm length; transverse muscles (T) are arranged in a radial configuration along four arcs connecting the external connective tissue with the…”
• Mechanically Versatile Soft Machines through Laminar Jamming (2018, background): “[12] C Laschi, M Cianchetti, B Mazzolai, L Margheri, M Follador, and P Dario.”
• Fast-moving soft electronic fish (2017, background): “In particular, mimicking the exceptional agility of insects (16, 17), fish (18), octopuses (19, 20), and snakes (21) has been a longtime pursuit.”
• Soft Robotics: New Perspectives for Robot Bodyware and Control (2014, neutral): “…(Seok et al., 2012), and the octopus-like arm where dexterous manipulation capabilities are reproduced by artificial muscular hydrostats based on a conical braided sheath that is used as the body of the arm and as a support for the SMA actuation system (Laschi et al., 2012), shown in Figure 2.”
• A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots (2015, neutral): “used tendons and demonstrated capabilities like grasping and locomotion.(16,29) Also, Wang et al.”
• Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation (2015, neutral): “All rights reserved.”
• Modeling of Soft Fiber-Reinforced Bending Actuators (2015, background): “tures from compliant materials such as electroactive polymers [8]–[10], shape memory alloys [11], [12], elastomers [2], hydrogels [13], [14], or composites that undergo a solid-state phase”
• Design, kinematics, and control of a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator (2016, methodology): “For example, previous work on soft bio-inspired octopus-like arms developed by Calisti et al. (2010) used tendons and demonstrate capabilities like grasping (Laschi et al., 2012) and locomotion (Calisti et al., 2011).”