continuum robotics

In this work, we present the model for manipulating a flexible body using two omnidirectional drones at its extremities. The drones are considered conventional rigid bodies while the flexible body is described as a Cosserat beam with its dynamics …

Aerial robots meet many industrial needs, but their gripping capacity, reduced to a metal clip, is not adapted to complex objects. The MAMBO project offers a new solution: a soft gripper, composed of a soft body that can withstand a large deformation and thus adapt to any object shape.

Robotics is today experiencing a paradigmatic revolution. The “stiffer is better” of our rigid robots is challenged by a new generation of robots with controlled deformations of finite amplitudes. This is the case of trunk-robots in soft robotics, continuum robots in medical robotics or hyper-redundant eel/snake-robots in bio-inspired robotics.