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Contents
List of Contributors ............................................................................................. xiii
Preface: A design journey of biorobotic motion generation mechanisms and flexible
continuum system development .............................................................................xvii
Chapter 1: Slender snake-like endoscopic robots in surgery....................................... 1
Shumei Yu, Wenjun Xu and Hongliang Ren
1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Snake-like robots for surgery................................................................................. 2
1.3 Modeling of snake-like surgical robots .................................................................. 7
1.4 Human machine interaction ................................................................................. 9
1.5 Conclusion........................................................................................................... 12
References ................................................................................................................... 13
Chapter 2: Prototyping soft origami quad-bellows robots from single-bellows
characterization .................................................................................. 19
Marcia J.T. Lee, Bok Seng Yeow, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Zion Tsz Ho Tse and
Hongliang Ren
2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 19
2.2 Literature review.................................................................................................. 20
2.3 Methodology........................................................................................................ 24
2.4 Results and discussion ......................................................................................... 31
2.5 Conclusion........................................................................................................... 35
Acknowledgment ......................................................................................................... 36
References ................................................................................................................... 36
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