Erratum: “Torsional Stiffness Improvement of a Soft Pneumatic Finger Using Embedded Skeleton,” [ASME J. Mech. Rob. 12(1), p. 011016; DOI: 10.1115/1.4045227 ]
The corresponding author designation was omitted from the paper “Torsional Stiffness Improvement of a Soft Pneumatic Finger Using Embedded Skeleton,” [JMR-19-1317]. Zhufeng Shao (shaozf@tsinghua.edu.cn) is the corresponding author. Read More Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics Open Issues
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