Published October, 2010
By Bram Vanderborght
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This book reports on the developments of the bipedal walking robot Lucy. Moreover pneumatic artificial muscles have a high power to weightratio and can be coupled directly without complex gearing mechanism, which canbe beneficial towards legged mechanisms.

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Published February, 2010
By Mihoko Otake
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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This monograph presents new developments and advances of deformable robots made of electroactive polymer (EAP) gel, a promising new material for artificial muscles. Future direction of gel robots are also presented such as polymer robots and muscle suits.

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Published July, 2008
By Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Written by Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg, this monograph combines ideas from robotics, physically-based modeling, and operations research to develop new motion planning and optimization algorithms for image-guided medical procedures.

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Published February, 2008
By Michael John Milford
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Published January, 2008
By Margaret E. Jefferies and Wai-Kiang Yeap
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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