Generating new, creative, and innovative ideas in the early stages of design process is crucial for developing better original products. Human designers may become too attached to specific ideas, preventing them from generating new concepts achieving ideal designs. To come up with a designer needs have creative mind, as well knowledge, experience, talent. Verbal, written, visual sources inspira...

a new type of backbone robot is presented in this paper. the core idea is to use a cross shape mechanism with the principle of functioning of the scissors linkages, known as a pantograph. although this continuum arm acts quite similar to tendon-driven robot, this manipulator does not include any tendon in its structure. this design does not suffer from the weaknesses of the continuum design suc...