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Bioinspired Soft Robot with Incorporated Microelectrodes
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Editorial: Living machines: from biological models to soft machines
Falk Tauber1,2, Vasiliki Vouloutsi3, Anna Mura4
1Cluster of Excellence livMatS@ FIT-Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
|March 16, 2022
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