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Re: Building fully flexible tail (several joints) with minimal actuation required

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
You may be envisioning the chain which has nearly +/- 180 dregrees of motion at each joint. Think of something that only has +/- 10 degrees. Monkees with prehensile tails can have motion that allows the tail to wrap around a limb, but to duplicate that with mechanical/electrical devices is a challenge. NASA has been working on this long and hard. A friend of mine was experimenting with "muscular motion" by stretching wire across a bladder. Inflate the bladder and the wires are pulled taut.
Is that something like the no-rod pneumatics thing discussed here? (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=39004)

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