Pith Number

pith:VBRDDTWF

pith:2018:VBRDDTWF3TIEXEOL52LLR733C6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Switchable Adhesion Actuator for Amphibious Climbing Soft Robot

Gaojian Lin, Jie Yin, Qiuting Zhang, Yichao Tang

arxiv:1804.08692 v2 · 2018-03-23 · physics.app-ph · cs.RO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBRDDTWF3TIEXEOL52LLR733C6}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:39.647243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a86231cec5dcd04b91cbee96b8ff7b178a7b79c8f9e08319600da2f682d4a8e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08692 · arxiv_version: 1804.08692v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08692 · pith_short_12: VBRDDTWF3TIE · pith_short_16: VBRDDTWF3TIEXEOL · pith_short_8: VBRDDTWF

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VBRDDTWF3TIEXEOL52LLR733C6 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a86231cec5dcd04b91cbee96b8ff7b178a7b79c8f9e08319600da2f682d4a8e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "844d6c987899e20346183aa61f885b83c2b8f023ebb1f95ee1255b34b3a6a908",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.app-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-23T01:30:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2357dfe57ca0fe88b9d875bb142bff3e8b4eac79e2ad5e9ac3d65c1021ef6987"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}