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A tortoise-inspired quadrupedal pneumatic soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Multi-terrain adaptation and landing capabilities pose substantial challenges for pneumatic bionic robots, particularly in crossing obstacles. This paper designs a turtle-inspired quadrupedal pneumatic soft crawling robot with four deformable bionic ...

Sandwich Miura-Ori Enabled Large Area, Super Resolution Tactile Skin for Human-Machine Interactions.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
With substantial advances in materials science and electronics, flexible tactile sensors have emerged as a promising sector with extensive applications, notably in human-machine interactions. However, achieving large-area sensing with few sensing uni...

Continuous real-time detection and management of comprehensive mental states using wireless soft multifunctional bioelectronics.

Biosensors & bioelectronics
Quantitatively measuring human mental states that profoundly affect cognition, behavior, and recovery would revolutionize personalized digital healthcare. Detecting fatigue, stress, and sleep is particularly important due to their interdependence: pe...

Miniature origami robot for various biological micromanipulations.

Nature communications
Robotic micromanipulation is widely applied in biological research and medical procedures, providing a level of operational precision and stability beyond human capability. Compared with traditional micromanipulators that require assembly from many p...

Initial characterization of a novel dual-robot orthovoltage radiotherapy system.

Biomedical physics & engineering express
Adequate access to radiotherapy is a critical global concern affecting low-resource settings such as low- and middle-income countries and rural regions. We propose to reduce this disparity by developing a novel low-cost radiotherapy device that treat...

Deep Learning for High Speed Optical Coherence Elastography With a Fiber Scanning Endoscope.

IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Tissue stiffness is related to soft tissue pathologies and can be assessed through palpation or via clinical imaging systems, e.g., ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging. Typically, the image based approaches are not suitable during interventions,...

Transformative biomedical devices to overcome biomatrix effects.

Biosensors & bioelectronics
The emergence of high-performance biomedical devices and sensing technologies highlights the technological advancements in the field. Recently during COVID-19 pandemic, biosensors played an important role in medical diagnostics and disease monitoring...

Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept.

Science robotics
Rehabilitation robotics aims to promote activity-dependent reorganization of the nervous system. However, people with paralysis cannot generate sufficient activity during robot-assisted rehabilitation and, consequently, do not benefit from these ther...

Soft robotic hand with tactile palm-finger coordination.

Nature communications
Soft robotic hands with integrated sensing capabilities hold great potential for interactive operations. Previous work has typically focused on integrating sensors with fingers. The palm, as a large and crucial contact region providing mechanical sup...

Terahertz molecular vibrational sensing using 3D printed anapole meta-biosensor.

Biosensors & bioelectronics
Terahertz (THz) fingerprint sensing utilizes the absorption of fingerprints generated by the unique vibrational characteristics of molecules to achieve substance-specific identification. By taking full advance of the anapole mode induced-biosensor co...