CENTAUR ROBOTS - A SURVEY

Recent developments in the field of multi-legged mobile manipulators encouraged researcher to develop new robotic platforms combining the locomotion stability of multi-legged robots with manipulation capabilities. This paper provides an extensive bibliography that can be of help to researchers interested in further studying and designing centaur-like robots. A centaur is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and lower body of a horse. Similar to the centaur, half-human and half-horse composition in robotics can be exploited to achieve stability and manipulation capabilities.

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