Fluidic Bio-Systems

Soft sheet robot (Wavy-sheet-I inspired by traveling waves in a snail's foot)

Soft sheet robot (Wavy-sheet-I inspired by traveling waves in a snail's foot) - YouTube

This video presents a soft sheet robot called “Wavy-sheet”, whose advantages are: i) many traveling waves can be generated by just three tubes, ii) the whole...

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paper

• Masahiro Watanabe, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, “Suitable configurations for pneumatic soft sheet actuator to generate traveling waves,” Advanced Robotics, Vol.32, Issue 7, 363-374 (2017)
• Masahiro Watanabe, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, “Soft Sheet Actuator Generating Traveling Waves Inspired by Gastropod’s Locomotion,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 602-607(2017)

Aerial Manipulator with door-opening function

Aerial Manipulator with door-opening function - YouTube

During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, opening the doors to enter the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was difficult for robots, especially given ...

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paper

• Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Masahiro Watanabe, Takahiro Hamada, Dameitry Ashlih, and Ryuma Iizuka, “Aerial Manipulator with Perching and Door-opening Capability,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.4663-4668 (2015)

•  INDEX
• Fluidic Soft Actuator
• Fluidic Information Processing
• Fluidic Bio-Systems
• Inspection & Disaster Response Robots
• Medical & Care Robots