Abstract: Tensegrity structures are becoming widely used in robotics, such as continuously bending soft manipulators and mobile robots to explore unknown and uneven environments dynamically.

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Abstract: Continuum robots (CRs) are dexterous to fit in narrow or unstructured spaces and thus have attracted much attention in special applications. Inspired by human spine anatomy, a ...