Fig 1 - A Static Model for a Stiffness-Adjustable Snake-Like Robot
(a) A 2-segment stiffness-adjustable manipulator, with the exposed view of the intermediate disks on the left. Four tendons are knotted at the 3 rd disk's top while the rest are fixed at the distal end disk's top. (b) The i th joint of a 4-tendon segment.