In the past few years, we have covered a whole host of snake robots that can move through pipes and tight areas for inspection. This COBRA robot takes a different approach. It moves items through locomotion. It simply moves its body to get an object moved to a new location. The developers used a non-impulsive implicit contact path planning approach to pull this off.
Must see robots & drones:
Loco-Manipulation with Nonimpulsive Contact-Implicit Planning in a Slithering Robot (COBRA)
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