We present a novel manipulator for aerial vehicles to perform grasping and manipulation tasks. The goal is to design a low-cost, relatively light but strong manipulator with a large workspace and...
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Tether-Tube Robot are a new type of parallel robots constructed from tethers and tubes. It is similar to cable robots but, rather than just using cables, expanding tubes are also used to do actua...
Spiral Zipper is a novel linear actuator developed in Modlab. The fundamental concept is that a long thin strip of material is generally flexible along its length but stiff along its height. ...