Continuum robots have become more popular recently due to their scalable dexterity and
mobility. However, they may suffer from issues like insufficient stiffness because they are …

This paper presents a novel continuum robot (OctRobot-I) that has controllable stiffness
variation capability in both the transverse and axial directions. Robot design, stiffness …

Through the implementation of reconfigurability to achieve flexibility and adaptation to tasks
by morphology changes rather than by increasing the number of joints, malleable robots …

In addition to high compliance to unstructured environments, soft robots can be further
improved to gain the advantages of rigid robots by increasing stiffness. Indeed, realizing the …

Variable stiffness continuum structures of large diameters are suitable for high-capability
robots, such as in industrial practices where high loads and human–robot interaction are …

For the majority of tasks performed by traditional serial robot arms, such as bin picking or
pick and place, only two or three degrees of freedom (DOF) are required for motion; …

In this paper, using a honeycomb-velcro structure to generate a novel jamming gripper is
explored. Each finger of the gripper consists of multi-layers with a honeycomb sandwich …

Featured Application The proposed method is useful in applications where it is not possible
to use a standard industrial robot because of space restrictions and it is necessary to design …

This chapter is about the fundamentals of fabrication, control, and human-robot interaction of
a new type of collaborative robotic manipulators, called malleable robots, which are based …

This paper presents a novel robot arm that is capable of switching between a rigid robot arm
and a continuum robot arm. Therefore, the novel robot arm can perform adaptive physical …