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Commercial suction cups offer versatile solutions for adhering to a variety of objects through their good adhesion capabilities, compliance to object features, and ease of use. This has made them a practical solution for a variety of applications, and they have become ubiquitous across diverse indus
Tensegrity structures are an assembly of rigid struts in compression with elastic members in tension that are in equilibrium. The motion of tensegrity-based robots can be dynamically achieved by actively adjusting this equilibrium and has been used mainly to produce rolling robots. However, these te
Octopuses can use as few as a single sucker to grab and hold onto objects as each sucker creates its own vacuum pressure using their individual muscles. Man-made suction arrays using vacuum pressure need mechanical solutions such as check valves for every suction cup, or they need to compensate for