Energy efficiency in friction-based locomotion mechanisms for soft and hard robots: slower can be faster

Meshworm: A Peristaltic Soft Robot With Antagonistic Nickel Titanium Coil Actuators

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Modeling the Motion of Microrobots on Surfaces Using Nonsmooth Multibody Dynamics

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ARRIpede: An Assembled Die-Scale Microcrawler

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Mechanics of peristaltic locomotion and role of anchoring

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Multigait soft robot

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Development of an In-pipe micro mobile robot using peristalsis motion

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Modeling and Experimental Characterization of an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot

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Voyage of the microrobots

(2009) Metin Sitti   NATURE

The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect

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