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to perform underwater (e.g., archeological recovery
and biological sampling). We believe this could aid in
the removal of human operators from those underwater tasks, i.e., from the risks of working in such difficult environments.
Acknowledgments
We thank Andrea Caffaz and Enrico Fontanesi at Graal Tech
S.r.l. (https://www.graaltech.com/) for their help in the pressure chamber tests and their general comments that greatly
improved the manuscript.
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Domenico Mura, Department of Soft Robotics for Human
Cooperation and Rehabilitation, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. E-mail: domenico.mura87@gmail.com.
Manuel Barbarossa, Department of Soft Robotics for Human
Cooperation and Rehabilitation, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. E-mail: Manuel.Barbarossa@iit.it.
Giacomo Dinuzzi, Department of Soft Robotics for Human
Cooperation and Rehabilitation, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. E-mail: Giacomo.Dinuzzi@iit.it.
Giorgio Grioli, Department of Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Genoa, Italy. E-mail: giorgio.grioli@gmail.com.
Andrea Caiti, Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" and Department
of Information Engineering, Università di Pisa, Italy. E-mail:
andrea.caiti@unipi.it.
Manuel G. Catalano, Department of Soft Robotics for Human
Cooperation and Rehabilitation, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. E-mail: manuel.catalano at iit.it.
https://www.graaltech.com/ http://www.iit.it
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