Patent ID: 11897129
Assignee: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a bendably articulatable body including
a control disk,
a bendable, rigid central backbone fixedly coupled to a center of the control disk, and
a secondary backbone fixedly coupled to the control disk at a defined distance from the center of the control disk,
wherein the movement actuator is configured to adjustably apply the bending force to the bendably articulatable body by controllably adjusting a linear position of a proximal end of the secondary backbone relative to a proximal end of the central backbone; and

a movement actuator configured to
controllably adjust a bending movement of the bendably articulatable body through direct actuation by adjustably applying a bending force to the bendably articulatable body, and
controllably adjust the bending movement of the bendably articulatable body through indirect actuation by controllably adjusting a flexural rigidity of the bendably articulatable body.