Soft Tensegrity Robot Arm with Twist Manipulation

Suzumori Endo Lab, Tokyo Tech has developed soft tensegrity arm with twist manipulation.
Project members:
Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nabae, and Koichi Suzumori
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Refer to:
Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nabae, and Koichi Suzumori, "Large Torsion Thin Artificial Muscles Tensegrity Structure for Twist Manipulation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1207-1214, March 2023, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3236889.
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Related research:
Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nabae, Gen Endo, and Koichi Suzumori, "Soft Tensegrity Robot Driven by Thin Artificial Muscles for the Exploration of Unknown Spatial Configurations," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 5349-5356, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3153700.
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Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nabae, and Koichi Suzumori, "Active-Bending Six-Bar Tensegrity Modular Robot Driven by Thin Artificial Muscles," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3315537.
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[@OwenWithAHammer]

Very impressive!

[@challacustica9049]

What is the strength of these actuators?

[@bearnaff9387]

I apologize for this comment. It is crass and rude, and seems dismissive of the genuine breakthrough you've accomplished here. That said... You have patents filed in Japan right? You designed and built a torsional and lifting robot arm with compliant actuators that is vertically mounted. If one were to take a common internally textured TPE sleeve and attach it to the nubs of the actuators, you would immediate be able to claim the top of a multi-billion yen industry. This was obviously not your goal, but you may be looking at the world's first mass market home robot arm and the first softrobotic commercial product. I don't know what that says about us as a species, but it's true.

[@TheRealityWarper08]

Where do you get the music for your videos?

[@Zandaka001]

really awesome! please keep at it