# Collaborative Continuum Robots: A Survey Constructing a Closed-Loop Task Architecture and Three Collaboration Modes from an Automation-System Perspective

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-27T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/eu5uwlcsyz8wu2dtd6f3w1bcu
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10721

## Summary

This survey constructs a closed-loop task-execution architecture for collaborative continuum robots (CCRs) from an automation-system perspective, explaining how target-task specifications are transformed into coordinated execution by multiple continuum robots. Based on this, the authors classify CCRs into three modes: separated collaboration, assistance collaboration, and parallel collaboration. They then review research progress in terms of multi-robot task allocation, structural design, modeling, motion planning, control strategies, and sensing mechanisms, and finally discuss key technical opportunities and the system-integration challenges of real-world deployment.