Prof. Daisuke Matsuura won the Silver Best Research Paper Award at 5th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER2021), held in Jun. 23-25, 2021, online, for the presentation entitled “An Extendable Continuum Robot Arm to Deal with a Confined Space Having Discontinuous Contact Area”. This work is done with Ryota Shioya, a doctor student in our lab, and Prof. Yukio Takeda.
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