Harvard researchers speed up snake-inspired kirigani robot

Early last year, a team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) revealed a snake-inspired soft robot that harnessed kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, to create pop-up scales that allowed the robot to grip the ground and propel itself along as it stretches and contracts. Now some tweaks have given the robot boosts in both speed in precision.

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Category: Robotics

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• Biomimicry
• Harvard
• kirigami
• Robotics
• Soft Robotics

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2XGxWnL