Plug-and-Play Robot Parts Improve Soft Robotic Operations (4 of 10) (VIDEO)

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The "snake" crawler robot, made of V-SPA modules and suction cups. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 30, 2017, issue of Science Robotics, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Robertson at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities."

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Robertson and Paik, Sci. Robot. 2, eaan6357 (2017)

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