A study on plant root apex morphology as a model for soft robots moving in soil

• Anand Kumar Mishra ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anand.mishra@iit.it (AKM); francesca.tramacere@iit.it (FT); barbara.mazzolai@iit.it (BM)

  Affiliations Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-7850

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• Francesca Tramacere ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Tramacere, Roberto Guarino

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anand.mishra@iit.it (AKM); francesca.tramacere@iit.it (FT); barbara.mazzolai@iit.it (BM)

  Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

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• Roberto Guarino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Tramacere, Roberto Guarino

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8415-2305

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• Nicola Maria Pugno,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Ket Lab, Edoardo Amaldi Foundation, Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Barbara Mazzolai

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anand.mishra@iit.it (AKM); francesca.tramacere@iit.it (FT); barbara.mazzolai@iit.it (BM)

  Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

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