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Soft Robots that Mimic the Neuromusculoskeletal System

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In motor control studies, the question on which parameters human beings and animals control through their nervous system has been extensively explored and discussed, and several hypotheses proposed. It is widely acknowledged that useful inputs in this problem could be provided by developing artificial replication of the neuromusculoskeletal system, to experiment different motor control hypothesis. In this paper we present such device, which reproduces many of the characteristics of an agonistic-antagonistic muscular pair acting on a joint.

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  1. “Enrico Piaggio”, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Manolo Garabini, Cosimo Della Santina & Antonio Bicchi

  2. Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego, 30, 16163, Genova, Italy

    Matteo Bianchi, Manuel Catalano, Giorgio Grioli & Antonio Bicchi

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Correspondence to Cosimo Della Santina .

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

    José María Azorín

  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

    Metin Akay

  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Garabini, M., Santina, C.D., Bianchi, M., Catalano, M., Grioli, G., Bicchi, A. (2017). Soft Robots that Mimic the Neuromusculoskeletal System. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_45

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