RESEARCH
Bio-inspired articulated robotic tail , which has separate systems for curling and rolling the tail ( R3RT ).
ROBOTS
WITHTAILS
by Pinhas Ben-Tzvi and Yujiong Liu
Four-legged robots are now commercially available , but to make them broadly acceptable we may need to add a limb to help them move more naturally .
Reprinted with permission , Mechanical Engineering magazine , Vol . 143 , No . 6 , October / November 2021 . Copyright 2021 ASME .
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