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Completed TRL 3 (started at 1, targeting 3)
The FY16 CIF funding for tensegrity robotics research supported a deep dive into new biologically inspired morphologies for tensegrity robots and the integration of the NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit (NTRT) simulator with the NASA's Pleiades supercomputer.
This project hopes to enable the new biologically inspired morphologies for tensegrity robots.
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