Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2018-01-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1038/nature25443PMID 29364873
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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