Journal Article10.1016/J.EML.2020.101079
Additive manufacturing aimed to soft robots fabrication: A review
Gianni Stano,Gianluca Percoco +1 more
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TL;DR: The present paper aims to give a review of the current use of additive manufacturing methods for the manufacturing of soft robots, finding three approaches to exploit AM in soft robotics: rapid mold fabrication, hybrid, and total additive manufacturing.
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About: This article is published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. The article was published on 01 Jan 2021. The article focuses on the topics: Soft robotics & Robot.
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