The design and development of Branch Bot: a branch-crawling, caterpillar-inspired, soft robot

A soft climbing robot has the potential to access locations such as wiring ducts and tree canopies that are unreachable by humans and traditional rigid robots. In addition, a soft robot is robust a...

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