“Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions” by Nabeshima, Saraiji and Minamizawa – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions” by Nabeshima, Saraiji and Minamizawa

  • 2019 ETech Nabeshima: Arque

  • 2019 ETech Nabeshima: Arque

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    Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions

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    New Technologies Research & Education Adaptive Technology

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    For most vertebrate animals, tail plays an important role for their body, providing variant functions to expand their mobility. In this work, Arque, we propose an artificial biomimicry-inspired anthropomorphic tail to allow us to alter our body momentum for assistive and haptic feedback applications.

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