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SUBMITTER: Kim SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6673692 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Sang Yup SY Baines Robert R Booth Joran J Vasios Nikolaos N Bertoldi Katia K Kramer-Bottiglio Rebecca R
Nature communications 20190801 1
Compliant, continuum structures allow living creatures to perform complex tasks inaccessible to artificial rigid systems. Although advancements in hyper-elastic materials have spurred the development of synthetic soft structures (i.e., artificial muscles), these structures have yet to match the precise control and diversity of motions witnessed in living creatures. Cephalopods tentacles, for example, can undergo multiple trajectories using muscular hydrostat, a structure consisting of aggregated ...[more]