Abstract: Inspired by the fact that the birds’ bodies are supportable with their thin legs, we develop a miniature self-moving piezoelectric actuator (MSPA) with high carrying/positioning capability.

In other words, you want to construct a polyhedral torus with faces that are shapes such as triangles or rectangles. Your peculiar-looking shape will be trickier to construct than one with a smooth ...

Abstract: Tensegrity structures are becoming widely used in robotics, such as continuously bending soft manipulators and mobile robots to explore unknown and uneven environments dynamically.