No assignee for this patent application has been made.Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Hawkes et al. US Patent Publication US2019/0217908, Published Jul. 18, 2019 describes a growthrobot. The growth robot has a thin-walled, hollow, pressurized, compliant body that elongates the bodyby everting from its tip new wall material that is stored inside the body and controls the shape of thebody by actively controlling the relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body Relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body can be controlled by shortening thelength of the wall material on the side facing the inside of a turn by using contracting artificial musclesmounted along the length of the body. Relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of thebody can also be controlled by lengthening the wall material on the side facing the outside of a turn, byreleasing pinches in the wall material, or by actively softening the material so that the body lengthens dueto the internal pressure. Relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body can alsobe controlled by actively restraining the length of the wall material on the side facing the inside of a turnwhile allowing the wall material on the outside of the turn to lengthen.
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