Continuum robots have become more popular recently due to their scalable dexterity and
mobility. However, they may suffer from issues like insufficient stiffness because they are …

This paper presents a novel continuum robot (OctRobot-I) that has controllable stiffness
variation capability in both the transverse and axial directions. Robot design, stiffness …

Traditional robots with constant stiffness demonstrate reliable output power and positioning
precision, which may conversely reduce their flexibility and adaptability or even incur greater …

This letter introduces a new type of soft continuum robot, called SCoReS, which is capable
of self-controlling continuously its curvature at the segment level; in contrast to previous …

Continuum robots with variable stiffness have gained wide popularity in the last decade.
Layer jamming (LJ) has emerged as a simple and efficient technique to achieve tunable …

With high flexibility and slim body, flexible robots have been widely used in minimally
invasive surgery because they can safely reach the lesion deep inside the human body …

This paper introduces a Cosserat rod based mathematical model for modeling a self-
controllable variable curvature soft continuum robot. This soft continuum robot has a hollow …

Malleable robots are a type of reconfigurable serial robot capable of adapting their topology,
through the use of variable stiffness malleable links, to desired tasks and workspaces by …

Continuum robots with variable stiffness have gained wide popularity in the last decade.
Layer jamming (LJ) has emerged as a simple and efficient technique to achieve tunable …

This chapter is about the fundamentals of fabrication, control, and human-robot interaction of
a new type of collaborative robotic manipulators, called malleable robots, which are based …