Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
May 20, 2020
New-era soft microrobots for biomedical applications need to mimic the essential structures and collective functions of creatures from nature. Biocompatible interfaces, intelligent functionalities, and precise locomotion control in a collective manne...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Mar 16, 2020
Mechanically guided, 3D assembly has attracted broad interests, owing to its compatibility with planar fabrication techniques and applicability to a diversity of geometries and length scales. Its further development requires the capability of on-dema...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Dec 16, 2019
Inspired by the human somatosensory system, pressure applied to multiple pressure sensors is received in parallel and combined into a representative signal pattern, which is subsequently processed using machine learning. The pressure signals are comb...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Nov 27, 2019
Untethered mini-robots can move single cells or aggregates to build complex constructs in confined spaces and may enable various biomedical applications such as regenerative repair in medicine and biosensing in bioengineering. However, a significant ...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Nov 14, 2019
Emulating the biological visual perception system typically requires a complex architecture including the integration of an artificial retina and optic nerves with various synaptic behaviors. However, self-adaptive synaptic behaviors, which are frequ...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Oct 16, 2019
Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors have been developed to generate multiple sound signals with high sensitivity, shifting the paradigm of future voice technologies. Speech recognition based on advanced acoustic sensors and optimized machine lear...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sep 26, 2019
Flexible neuromorphic electronics that emulate biological neuronal systems constitute a promising candidate for next-generation wearable computing, soft robotics, and neuroprosthetics. For realization, with the achievement of simple synaptic behavior...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sep 19, 2019
Recent progress in electronic skin or e-skin research is broadly reviewed, focusing on technologies needed in three main applications: skin-attachable electronics, robotics, and prosthetics. First, since e-skin will be exposed to prolonged stresses o...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Jul 30, 2019
Sensory memory, formed at the beginning while perceiving and interacting with the environment, is considered a primary source of intelligence. Transferring such biological concepts into electronic implementation aims at achieving perceptual intellige...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Jul 9, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) and nanotechnology are two fields that are instrumental in realizing the goal of precision medicine-tailoring the best treatment for each cancer patient. Recent conversion between these two fields is enabling better patie...