Research
Tensegrity continuum robots enable task-adaptive morphologies for cooperative behaviours
Nature · By Mahmud Hasan Saikot ·
The Brief
- Saikot et al. report flexible modular robots that combine locomotion and manipulation in a single unit.
- The robots can physically connect and collaborate in task-adaptive forms to carry out tasks.
- The work is published in Nature Machine Intelligence (doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01335-4).
Why it matters
It demonstrates a single modular robotic unit that can switch between locomotion and manipulation and join with others, which may inform the design of adaptable robots for varied tasks.
Who’s affected
- robotics researchers
- engineers working on modular and soft robots
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- #tensegrity
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- #soft robotics
- #cooperative robots
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01335-4 Saikot et al. present flexible modular robots that combine locomotion and manipulation in a single unit, then physically connect and collaborate in task-adaptive forms to carry…
Timeline
Published online in Nature Machine Intelligence
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Tensegrity continuum robots enable task-adaptive morphologies for cooperative behaviours