Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jan 13, 2020
In nature, climbing trees and pipes of varying diameters or even navigating inside of hollow pipes and tree holes is easy for some climbing animals and insects. However, today's pipe-climbing robots, which are important for automatically conducting p...
Nature protocols
Jan 10, 2020
Exposure of lung tissues to cigarette smoke is a major cause of human disease and death worldwide. Unfortunately, adequate model systems that can reliably recapitulate disease biogenesis in vitro, including exposure of the human lung airway to fresh ...
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Jan 9, 2020
In this work, a memristive circuit with affective multi-associative learning function is proposed, which mimics the process of human affective formation. It mainly contains three modules: affective associative learning, affective formation, affective...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Dec 18, 2019
Flapping flight using passive pitch regulation is a commonly used mode of thrust and lift generation in insects and has been widely emulated in flying vehicles because it allows for simple implementation of the complex kinematics associated with flap...
Soft robotics
Nov 5, 2019
Mechanoreception, the ability of robots to detect mechanical stimuli from the internal and external environments, contributes significantly to improving safety and task performance during the operation of robots in unstructured environments. Various ...
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...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Sep 24, 2019
Neural networks have enabled great advances in recent times due mainly to improved parallel computing capabilities in accordance to Moore's Law, which allowed reducing the time needed for the parameter learning of complex, multi-layered neural archit...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Sep 24, 2019
Inchworms have been one of the most widely used bionic templates for designing soft robotic devices. Bioresearch has shown that muscles of inchworms exhibit nonlinear hysteresis and their body structures are with hydrostatic skeleton. But effects of ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 16, 2019
Since tactile perception and robotic manipulation play important roles in human survival, we propose a new method for developing robotic tactile sensors based on the structural colours of Morpho menelaus (a kind of Morpho butterfly). The first task i...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 16, 2019
The bodies of earthworms are composed of repeating deformable structural units, called metameres, that generate the peristaltic body motions required for limbless underground burrowing and above-ground crawling. Metameres are actuated by circular and...