Zekai Xie

Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness

Soft robots exhibit promising dexterity and adaptability for manipulation because of their high compliance. However, the existing soft robots with invariant stiffness hardly interact with cluttered environments with varying curvatures. In this study, inspired by the maneuverability of an elephant tr