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Toward developing a compact total artificial heart using a soft robotic fluidic transmission system.

Science advances Jul 2, 2025
Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of mortality, with limited possibilities for transplantation due to a critical shortage of donor hearts. Replacing the heart with total artificial hearts (TAHs) remains challenging, due to size constraints ...
Equipment Design Heart Failure Heart, Artificial Humans Robotics
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Case study on force compliant robot arm controller for nasopharyngeal swab insertion.

Scientific reports Jul 2, 2025
The nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sample test, commonly used to detect COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, involves moving a swab through the nasal cavity to collect samples from the nasopharynx. While typically this is done by human healthcare work...
Specimen Handling Nasal Cavity Nasopharynx Equipment Design COVID-19 Testing Humans SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Robotics
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Development of an electrical current stimulator for controlling biohybrid machines.

Scientific reports Jul 2, 2025
Soft and flexible robotics is an emerging field that attracts a huge interest due to its ability to produce bioinspired devices that are easily adaptable to the environment. Biohybrid Machines (BHM) represent a category of soft robots that integrate ...
Humans Electricity Equipment Design Muscle Contraction Electric Stimulation Animals Robotics
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An ultralight, tiny, flexible six-axis force/torque sensor enables dexterous fingertip manipulations.

Nature communications Jul 1, 2025
Multi-dimensional mechanoreceptors are crucial for both humans and robots, providing omnidirectional force/torque senses to ensure dexterous and precise manipulations. Current six-axis force/torque sensors are bulky, heavy, and rigid with complicated...
Humans Robotics Touch Mechanoreceptors Equipment Design Fingers
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OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function.

Science robotics Jun 25, 2025
Although the field of wearable robotic exoskeletons is rapidly expanding, there are several barriers to entry that discourage many from pursuing research in this area, ultimately hindering growth. Chief among these is the lengthy and costly developme...
Software Biomechanical Phenomena Robotics Equipment Design Weight-Bearing Wearable Electronic Devices Ankle Humans Exoskeleton Device
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Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses.

Science robotics Jun 25, 2025
Microrobotic techniques are promising for treating biofilm infections located deep within the human body. However, the presence of highly viscous pus presents a formidable biological barrier, severely restricting targeted and minimally invasive treat...
Rabbits Light Bismuth Optical Fibers Copper Equipment Design Robotics Catalysis Animals Biofilms Humans Sinusitis Anti-Bacterial Agents Bacterial Infections Reactive Oxygen Species
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Bio-inspired swarm of underwater robots: a review.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jun 19, 2025
With the in-depth integration of research across multiple disciplines, such as biomimetics, robotics, and sensing technology, significant advancements have been made in swarm robotics technology, which has been applied in areas including drone swarms...
Equipment Design Biomimetics Water Artificial Intelligence Robotics Algorithms Animals
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Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress.

Science robotics Jun 18, 2025
Despite the devastating effects of pressure ulcers (PUs), little is understood about how they can be prevented using alternating-pressure (AP) mattresses. Such mattresses typically aim to minimize the pressures imparted while alternating between diff...
Robotics Equipment Design Pressure Humans Pressure Ulcer Beds
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Integrated Intelligent Material Recognition and Information Exchange Platform Based on a Highly Sensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor and Electroluminescent Display.

ACS sensors Jun 11, 2025
Flexible pressure sensors have become a research hotspot in human-computer interaction and material recognition due to their flexibility and high sensitivity. However, the identified information relies on traditional displays and cannot be dynamicall...
Pressure Neural Networks, Computer Equipment Design Humans
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Multimodal information structuring with single-layer soft skins and high-density electrical impedance tomography.

Science robotics Jun 11, 2025
The human skin can reliably capture a wide range of multimodal data over a large surface while providing a soft interface. Artificial technologies using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can emulate these biological functions but present numerous...
Skin Tomography Robotics Electric Impedance Hand Touch Equipment Design Humans Hydrogels Adult
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