This is EEMMMa: a robotic limb with a long-reach steel tentacle that can extend and bend. It can be used as a grappling hook for climbing or change shape to bend around obstacles. This approach can be used to retrieve samples from hard to reach areas.
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Novel Extending and Bending Robotic Limb EEMMMa - ASME JMR 2022 2-Minute Overview
This robotic limb enables mobile robots to move safely through highly unstructured terrain. As the researchers explain, EEMMMa-1 prototype successfully climbed ladders and shelves in 1.5 bodylengths per second. It can also bend up to 100 degrees.
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