Infographics - Proboscis (IMAGE)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT

Infographics - Proboscis

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The new Proboscis robotic manipulator will have a body made by soft actuators with variable stiffness, sensitive to their own movements, and organised in a bioinspired architecture together with an advanced soft tactile sensing system able to provide the necessary information to the control algorithms.

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IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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