A Soft Master-Slave Robot Mimicking Octopus Arm Structure Using Thin Artificial Muscles and Wire Encoders
An octopus arm with a flexible structure and no rigid skeleton shows a high degree of freedom and flexibility.These excellent features are suitable for working in an environment having fragile and unknown-shaped objects.Therefore, a soft robot arm resembling an octopus arm can be useful as a harvesting machine without damaging crops in the agricult