Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Aug 11, 2024
Over the past decades, tactile sensing technology has made significant advances in the fields of health monitoring and robotics. Compared to conventional sensors, self-powered tactile sensors do not require an external power source to drive, which ma...
Nature communications
Aug 11, 2024
As robots are increasingly participating in our daily lives, the quests to mimic human abilities have driven the advancements of robotic multimodal senses. However, current perceptual technologies still unsatisfied robotic needs for home tasks/enviro...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 5, 2024
Legged robots have received widespread attention in academia and engineering owing to their excellent terrain adaptability. However, most legged robots can only adapt to high-hardness environments instead of flexible environments. Expanding the motio...
Biosensors & bioelectronics
Aug 3, 2024
Microfluidic devices are increasingly widespread in the literature, being applied to numerous exciting applications, from chemical research to Point-of-Care devices, passing through drug development and clinical scenarios. Setting up these microenvir...
Soft robotics
Aug 2, 2024
Sound is a rich information medium that transmits through air; people communicate through speech and can even discern material through tapping and listening. To capture frequencies in the human hearing range, commercial microphones typically have a s...
Soft robotics
Jul 30, 2024
Soft actuators offer numerous potential applications; however, challenges persist in achieving a high driving force and fast response speed. In this work, we present the design, fabrication, and analysis of a soft pneumatic bistable actuator (PBA) mi...
Journal of forensic sciences
Jul 25, 2024
In tool mark identification, there is still a lack of characteristics and methodologies standardization used to analyze and describe sharp force trauma marks on skeletal remains. This study presents a classification method for cut marks on human bone...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 25, 2024
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted systems offer an opportunity to support the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of vascular diseases to reduce radiation exposure and support the limited medical staff in vascular medicine. In the diagnosis and follow-up care...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 24, 2024
Tactile sensors play an important role when robots perform contact tasks, such as physical information collection, force or displacement control to avoid collision. For these manipulations, excessive contact may cause damage while poor contact cause ...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jul 23, 2024
Mechanotherapy has emerged as a promising treatment for tissue injury. However, existing robots for mechanotherapy are often designed on intuition, lack remote and wireless control, and have limited motion modes. Herein, through topology optimization...