Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

Soft continuum robots are more and used in various applications due to the multiple advantages offered by properties of hyper-elastic soft materials, such as resilience, flexibility, etc. Despite all these essential that make good candidates for some real-life needs (form enclosure grasping, obstacle-free navigation, etc.), controlling their shape remains challenging because hyper-redundancies....

Compliant grasping is an important function of continuum robots that interact with humans and/or unpredictable environments. However, the existing often have cross-sections remain constant along their length. This causes to exhibit poor ability, especially when dealing objects diverse curvatures. Here, inspired by high adaptability seahorse tails in grasping, a cable-driven robot tapered tenseg...