Fig. 5: Adaptive soft crawling robot and robotic tree-planting. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Adaptive soft crawling robot and robotic tree-planting.

From: Magnetic crack-based piezoinductive mechanical sensors: way to extreme robustness and ultra-sensitivity

Fig. 5

a Design and camera images of the responsive soft crawling robot. b Lying down and pretending ‘dead’ when the robot head was attacked. c Detecting a strike with a hammer at the rear part of the crawling robot, flashing the ‘escaping mode’ with red lighting, and running away at its maximum speed. d Recognition of an obstacle and adjustment of its locomotion gait to cross over it. e Inductive signals from the front and rear modules during the obstacle recognition and adaptive locomotion, inset: inductive signal of the front module at normal gait and when encountered an obstacle. f Camera images showing the robotic tree-planting and illustration of the soft fin-ray gripper with two integrated MC-PISs at the tip and root of the finger. g Tactile sensing signals during the consecutive tasks (digging a hole, removing a stone, plating a tree, and plowing and watering) while the robot was planting a small tree.

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