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The session highlighted overarching themes that are characteristic of recent approaches to robot/mechanism design. These include: (i) flexibility of the design in order to address a wide spectrum of applications (e.g., a four-fingered hand that can deal with objects of various sizes, shapes, and masses); (ii) new materials that can really expand the design capabilities; (iii) bio-inspired approaches that yield highly innovative systems; and (iv) minimalistic systems that produce systems of low cost since fewer actuators than DOFs are utilized.
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Papanikolopoulos, N. (2009). Session 1: Design. In: Khatib, O., Kumar, V., Pappas, G.J. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00196-3_1
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