1080pEELS: a snake robot for passages through ice
A segmented robot combines rotating screw propulsion with environmental mapping in ground tests on ice, snow, sand and glacier passages.
Ground prototypes and glacier testsRead case
ROBOTS & TASKS
Snake & continuum robots
Navigate winding paths to observe and manipulate within limited space.
NASA/JPL-CaltechPUBLIC CASES
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1080pFLARE: twin snake robots patch thermal-barrier coatings
Two snake robots reach a combustor through limited access to observe and patch local thermal-barrier coating damage.
Laboratory engine testsRead case
1080pA soft robot that advances by tip growth
A flexible tube grows by eversion at its tip, offering another way to move around obstacles.
Growth-based proof of conceptRead case
4KMagnetically steered thread in a cerebral-vessel model
A magnetic field steers a slender thread, with a hydrogel coating to reduce friction.
Vascular-model experimentsRead case
Snake robot in earthquake rubble
After the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, a snake robot provided camera views inside gaps inaccessible to conventional cameras.
Documented earthquake deploymentRead case
480pContact-aided continuum robot
Internal contact-aided compliant mechanisms improve a slender manipulator’s resistance to twisting and compression buckling.
Laboratory validationRead case
Nested continuumMechanisms
Nested continuum robot
Nested tendon-driven and concentric-tube structures use axial sliding to adjust a continuum robot’s configuration and stiffness.
Design, modeling and experimentsRead case
VideoA space continuum arm: orbital technology tests for refuelling
Orbital tests aboard Xiyuan-0 examined simulated refuelling and compliant manipulation.
Orbital technology demonstrationRead case
JOURNAL
Field-record notePerception & localisation
The next move beneath the ice
EELS brings locomotion, mapping and risk assessment into a single exploration task.
SELECTED SOURCES
Institutional recordEELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor)Institutional recordStanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robotInstitutional recordRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vesselsInstitutional recordSnake Robot Urban Search After the 2017 Mexico City EarthquakePaperA Novel Contact-Aided Continuum Robotic System: Design, Modeling, and ValidationInstitutional record子母式连续体机器人：设计、建模与验证Institutional record如何给卫星“加油”？清华 SIGS 在轨柔性机械臂技术报道
Snake-like form and continuum structure overlap, but are not interchangeable. Each case retains its specific mechanism description.
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