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Title: Towards an Untethered Knit Fabric Soft Continuum Robotic Module with Embedded Fabric Sensing
Award ID(s):
1800940
NSF-PAR ID:
10219522
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
615 to 620
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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