Human-robot coexistence has become an important trend of the new generation of robots.
Both rigid structures and soft structures have their own limitations in certain application …

The Spherical Underactuated Planetary Exploration Robot ball (SUPERball) is an ongoing
project within NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Robotics Group and the Dynamic …

Soft spherical tensegrity robots are novel steerable mobile robotic platforms that are
compliant, lightweight, and robust. The geometry of these robots is suitable for rolling …

Co-robots that can effectively move with and operate alongside humans in a variety of
conditions could revolutionize the utility of robots for a wide range of applications …

Spherical movable tensegrity robots, resorting to the intrinsic hallmark of being lightweight
and resilient, have exhibited tremendous potential in exploring unpredictable terrains and …

This work presents a 10 kg tensegrity ball probe that can quickly and precisely deliver a 1 kg
payload over a 1 km distance on the Moon by combining cable-driven rolling and thruster …

Robots based on tensegrity structures have the potential to be robust, efficient and
adaptable. While traditionally being difficult to control, recent control strategies for ball …

Tensegrity robots, which are famous for their light weight and high adaptability, have unique
potential applications in space exploration and task execution in complex environments. In …

The Underactuated Lightweight Tensegrity Robotic Assistive Spine (ULTRA Spine) project is
an ongoing effort to create a compliant, cable-driven, 3-degree-of-freedom, underactuated …

This paper proposes a method for simultaneously planning a path and a sequence of
deformations for a tensegrity drone. Previous work in the field required the use of bounding …