Physics in medicine and biology
May 30, 2024
Accurate diagnosis and treatment assessment of liver fibrosis face significant challenges, including inherent limitations in current techniques like sampling errors and inter-observer variability. Addressing this, our study introduces a novel machine...
Nature communications
Apr 4, 2024
Mechano-sensitive hair-like sensilla (MSHS) have an ingenious and compact three-dimensional structure and have evolved widely in living organisms to perceive multidirectional mechanical signals. Nearly all MSHS are iontronic or electronic, including ...
Scientific reports
Feb 13, 2024
Physical human-robot interactions (pHRI) often provide mechanical force and power to aid walking without requiring voluntary effort from the human. Alternatively, principles of physical human-human interactions (pHHI) can inspire pHRI that aids walki...
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Dec 28, 2023
Atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based force spectroscopy assay has become an important method for characterizing the mechanical properties of single living cells under aqueous conditions, but a disadvantage is its reliance on manual operation and exper...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Nov 23, 2023
Artificial muscles, providing safe and close interaction between humans and machines, are essential in soft robotics. However, their insufficient deformation, output force, or configurability usually limits their applications. Herein, this work prese...
International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Nov 3, 2023
Reducing the computational time required by high-fidelity, full-order models (FOMs) for the solution of problems in cardiac mechanics is crucial to allow the translation of patient-specific simulations into clinical practice. Indeed, while FOMs, such...
Scientific reports
Oct 25, 2023
Soft sensors that can discriminate shear and normal force could help provide machines the fine control desirable for safe and effective physical interactions with people. A capacitive sensor is made for this purpose, composed of patterned elastomer a...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 3, 2023
PURPOSE: The development of cardiovascular interventional surgery robots can realize master-slave interventional operations, which will effectively solve the problem of surgeons being injured by X-ray radiation. The delivery accuracy and safety of in...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 29, 2023
This study presents a portable device that ensures precise contact force between a subject and a probe to improve the stability and reproducibility of ultrasound (US) acquisition. The mechanical portion of the device includes a servo motor, gears, an...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jun 19, 2023
Particle-jamming soft robots are characterised by high flexibility in motion and high stiffness when executing a task. Regarding particle jamming of soft robots, the discrete element method (DEM)-finite element method (FEM) coupling was used for mode...