Towards flexible medical instruments: Review of flexible fluidic actuators
- 1 October 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Precision Engineering
- Vol. 33 (4), 311-321
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precisioneng.2008.10.004
Abstract
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