Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms

• Daniel M. Vogt ,

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

  * E-mail: daniel.vogt@wyss.harvard.edu (DMV); david.gruber@baruch.cuny.edu (DFG)

  Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Kaitlyn P. Becker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Brennan T. Phillips,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-6529

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• Moritz A. Graule,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Randi D. Rotjan,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Timothy M. Shank,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America

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• Erik E. Cordes,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Robert J. Wood,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• David F. Gruber

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: daniel.vogt@wyss.harvard.edu (DMV); david.gruber@baruch.cuny.edu (DFG)

  Affiliations Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College and The Graduate Center PhD Program in Biology, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States of America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-2911

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