3 accepted papers
Pneumatic soft everting robotic structures have the potential to facilitate human transfer tasks due to their ability to grow underneath humans without sliding friction and their utility as a flexible sling when deflated. Tubular structures naturally yield circular cross-sections when inflated, wher
The navigational abilities of tip-everting soft growing robots, known as vine robots, are compromised when tip-mount devices are added to enable carrying of payloads. We present a new method for securing a vine robot to objects or its environment that exploits the unique eversion-based growth mechan…
Safely harnessing and lifting humans for transfer is a challenging unsolved problem for current robots because of the high forces and gentle interaction necessary to do so. Straps, however, are highly beneficial for manually performing this task primarily because of their simultaneously high tensile