Continuum Robots for Manipulation Applications: A Survey

Table 3

Human hand-inspired continuum model applications.

Inflatable arm/safe human interaction [147]	Exoskeleton/support for heavy lifting [148]	Extendable arm/inspection and penetration [149]	NASA—planetary arm/space exploration [155]; 0
Hand-held arm/cleaning and drilling [151]; 1	Anthropomorphic bot/games and recreation [152]; 2	Inflatable joint robot/ brittle material manipulation [154]; 3	Reconfigurable robot/rehabilitation assistance [156]; 4
Collaborative robot/coordination [158]	Arm robot/grasping and holding [157]	Fabric-based arm/lightweight model [153]	Robo-glove/ grasping and manipulation [189]