Editing Tensegrity (section)

=== Robotics ===
[[File:NASA SUPERball Tensegrity Lander Prototype.jpg|thumb|right|[[NASA Ames|NASA]]'s [[NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts#2012 NIAC Project Selections|Super Ball Bot]] is an early prototype to land on another planet without an airbag, and then be mobile to explore. The tensegrity structure provides structural compliance absorbing landing impact forces and motion is applied by changing cable lengths, 2014.]]

Since the early 2000s, tensegrities have also attracted the interest of roboticists due to their potential to design lightweight and resilient robots. Numerous researches have investigated tensegrity rovers,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sabelhaus |first1=Andrew P. |last2=Bruce |first2=Jonathan |last3=Caluwaerts |first3=Ken |last4=Manovi |first4=Pavlo |last5=Firoozi |first5=Roya Fallah |last6=Dobi |first6=Sarah |last7=Agogino |first7=Alice M. |last8=SunSpiral |first8=Vytas |title=2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |chapter=System design and locomotion of SUPERball, an untethered tensegrity robot |date=May 2015 |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7139590 |location=Seattle, WA, USA |publisher=IEEE |pages=2867–2873 |doi=10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139590 |isbn=978-1-4799-6923-4|hdl=2060/20160001750 |s2cid=8548412 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> bio-mimicking robots,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lessard |first1=Steven |last2=Castro |first2=Dennis |last3=Asper |first3=William |last4=Chopra |first4=Shaurya Deep |last5=Baltaxe-Admony |first5=Leya Breanna |last6=Teodorescu |first6=Mircea |last7=SunSpiral |first7=Vytas |last8=Agogino |first8=Adrian |title=2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |chapter=A bio-inspired tensegrity manipulator with multi-DOF, structurally compliant joints |date=October 2016 |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iros.2016.7759811 |pages=5515–5520 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/iros.2016.7759811 |isbn=978-1-5090-3762-9|arxiv=1604.08667 |s2cid=4507700 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zappetti |first1=Davide |last2=Arandes |first2=Roc |last3=Ajanic |first3=Enrico |last4=Floreano |first4=Dario |date=2020-06-05 |title=Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine |url=https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/ab87e0 |journal=Smart Materials and Structures |volume=29 |issue=7 |page=075013 |doi=10.1088/1361-665x/ab87e0 |bibcode=2020SMaS...29g5013Z |s2cid=216237847 |issn=0964-1726}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Yixiang |last2=Dai |first2=Xiaolin |last3=Wang |first3=Zhe |last4=Bi |first4=Qing |last5=Song |first5=Rui |last6=Zhao |first6=Jie |last7=Li |first7=Yibin |date=2022 |title=A Tensegrity-Based Inchworm-Like Robot for Crawling in Pipes With Varying Diameters |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9873907 |journal=IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=11553–11560 |doi=10.1109/LRA.2022.3203585 |s2cid=252030788 |issn=2377-3766}}</ref> and modular soft robots.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Zappetti |first1=D. |last2=Mintchev |first2=S. |last3=Shintake |first3=J. |last4=Floreano |first4=D. |title=Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots |date=2017 |work=Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems |pages=497–508 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_42 |arxiv=1703.10139 |isbn=978-3-319-63536-1 |s2cid=822747 }}</ref> The most famous tensegrity robot is the [[NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts#2012 NIAC Project Selections|Super Ball Bot]],<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Loura |date=2015-04-02 |title=Super Ball Bot |url=http://www.nasa.gov/content/super-ball-bot |access-date=2020-06-18 |website=NASA}}</ref> a rover for space exploration using a [[Jessen's icosahedron|6-bar tensegrity structure]], currently under developments at [[NASA Ames]].