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SUBMITTER: Schonke J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320513 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181219 1
Linkages are assemblies of rigid bodies connected through joints. They serve as the basis for force- and movement-managing devices ranging from ordinary pliers to high-precision robotic arms. Aside from planar mechanisms, like the well-known four-bar linkage, only a few linkages with a single internal degree of freedom-meaning that they can change shape in only one way and may thus be easily controlled-have been known to date. Here, we present "Möbius kaleidocycles," a previously undiscovered cl ...[more]