Morpho: A self-deformable modular robot inspired by cellular structure

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

• Publication date

  2008-10-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651130
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