Continuum robotics has rapidly become a rich and diverse area of research, with many
designs and applications demonstrated. Despite this diversity in form and purpose, there …

In this paper, we describe the state of the art in continuum robot manipulators and systems
intended for application to interventional medicine. Inspired by biological trunks, tentacles …

The inspiration for snake robots comes from biological snakes. Snakes display superior
mobility capabilities and can move over virtually any type of terrain, including narrow and …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

Soft slender structures are ubiquitous in natural and artificial systems, in active and passive
settings and across scales, from polymers and flagella, to snakes and space tethers. In this …

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

Magnetically-actuated soft robots have potential for medical application but require further
innovation on functionality and biocompatibility. In this letter, a multi-segmented snake …

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

Worm-like and snake-like robots have attracted a great deal of research attention due to
their slender bodies and excellent mobility. Based on different locomotion mechanisms …

This paper presents a novel design of extensible continuum robots in light of origami-
inspired folding techniques. The design starts from a modularized crease pattern, which …