Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Feb 8, 2022
Artificial fish-like robots developed to date often focus on the external morphology of fish and have rarely addressed the contribution of the structure and morphology of biological muscle. However, biological studies have proven that fish utilize th...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 27, 2021
The development of "large display, high performance and low cost" in the FPD industry demands glass substrates to be "larger and thinner". Therefore, the requirements of handling robots are developing in the direction of large scale, high speed, and ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 12, 2021
Most existing wall-climbing robots have a fixed range of load capacity and a step distance that is small and mostly immutable. It is therefore difficult for them to adapt to a discontinuous wall with particularly large gaps. Based on a modular design...
Soft robotics
Aug 18, 2021
Soft and stretchable sensors are essential to the development of electronic skin, especially their potential applications in health care and intelligent robots, which have increasingly attracted attentions. Herein, inspired by the epidermal tissue hi...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 11, 2021
Soft grippers have exhibited considerable advantages owing to their flexible deformation, compliant operation, and safe interaction with objects. The ability to grip solid and liquid objects can greatly expand the application range of the soft grippe...
Clinical nursing research
Aug 8, 2021
This editorial summarizes the emergence of bionic technology in the form of exoskeletons and how these wearable robotics are and could be applied in the nursing profession to improve the occupational health of nurses and deliver patient care. The ben...
Soft robotics
Jul 21, 2021
Beyond their colorful appearances and versatile geometries, flowers can self-shape-morph by adapting to environmental changes. Nature-inspired artificial systems that mimic their natural counterparts in function, flexibility, and adaptation find an e...
ACS nano
Jul 9, 2021
Due to their high flexibility and adaptability, bionic robots have great potential in applications such as healthcare, rescue, and surveillance. The flexible actuator is an essential component of the bionic robot and determines its performance. Even ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jun 18, 2021
Artificial muscles have unique advantages for driving bionic robots because their driving mode is similar to biological muscles. However, there is still a big gap between the existing artificial muscle and biological muscle in performance. The twiste...
ISA transactions
May 10, 2021
This paper presents a collaborative obstacle avoidance algorithm of multiple bionic snake robots in fluid based on IB-LBM. The method can make the multiple bionic snake robots avoid different obstacles in the fluid under the control of the improved S...