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Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots

arXiv:2606.06040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft, growing vine robots extend through tip eversion, a mechanism that enables navigation through cluttered environments. However, integrating cameras and other sensors at the tip is uniquely challenging because the material forming the tip is constantly renewed as the robot grows. This continual material turnover, combined with friction between internal layers, added tip weight, and fabric constriction, complicates sensor and tool mounting. These limitations hinder the deployment of vine robots for inspection and search tasks, where rapid grow…

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