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Artificial Muscles and Soft Robotic Devices for Treatment of End-Stage Heart Failure.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Mar 12, 2023
Medical soft robotics constitutes a rapidly developing field in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, with a promising future for millions of patients suffering from heart failure worldwide. Herein, the present state and future direction of artif...
Humans Robotics Heart Failure Mechanical Phenomena Myocardium Heart
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A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers.

Soft robotics Feb 28, 2023
Robot grippers that lack physical compliance have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty, such as fragile objects that may not have well-defined shapes. Existing soft robotic grippers require a large empty workspace for their actuated fingers to c...
Fingers Mechanical Phenomena Hand Strength Robotics Equipment Design
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Design and evaluation of vascular interventional robot system for complex coronary artery lesions.

Medical & biological engineering & computing Jan 27, 2023
At present, most vascular intervention robots cannot cope with the more common coronary complex lesions in the clinic. Moreover, the lack of effective force feedback increases the risk of surgery. In this paper, a vascular interventional robot that c...
Coronary Vessels Mechanical Phenomena Robotic Surgical Procedures Feedback Robotics Equipment Design
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Optical force estimation for interactions between tool and soft tissues.

Scientific reports Jan 10, 2023
Robotic assistance in minimally invasive surgery offers numerous advantages for both patient and surgeon. However, the lack of force feedback in robotic surgery is a major limitation, and accurately estimating tool-tissue interaction forces remains a...
Tomography, Optical Coherence Robotic Surgical Procedures Humans Robotics Phantoms, Imaging Elasticity Imaging Techniques Elasticity Mechanical Phenomena
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Bioinspired shape shifting of liquid-infused ribbed sheets.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Dec 29, 2022
The recent emergence of stimuli-responsive, shape-shifting materials offers promising applications in fields as different as soft robotics, aeronautics, or biomedical engineering. Targeted shapes or movements are achieved from the advantageous coupli...
Mechanical Phenomena Biomedical Engineering Hydrogels Stimuli Responsive Polymers Robotics Elastomers
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Mechanically controlled robotic gripper with bistability for fast and adaptive grasping.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Dec 28, 2022
This paper presents a novel bistable gripper inspired by the closure motion found in the jaw of a hummingbird. With a bistable characteristic, the robotic gripper can grasp objects rapidly without applying continuous external force. The bistable grip...
Robotic Surgical Procedures Mechanical Phenomena Robotics Hand Strength Bionics
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Finger-palm synergistic soft gripper for dynamic capture via energy harvesting and dissipation.

Nature communications Dec 13, 2022
Robotic grippers, inspired by human hands, show an extraordinary ability to manipulate objects of various shapes, sizes, or materials. However, capturing objects with varying kinetic energy remains challenging, regardless of the classical rigid-bodie...
Humans Hand Strength Robotics Equipment Design Fingers Mechanical Phenomena
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A hydraulic soft microgripper for biological studies.

Scientific reports Dec 10, 2022
We have developed a microscale hydraulic soft gripper and demonstrated the handling of an insect without damage. This gripper is built on Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with the soft material casting technique to form three finger-like columns, which ar...
Equipment Design Hand Strength Fingers Mechanical Phenomena Robotics
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Annelid-inspired high-elongation origami robot using partial material removal.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Dec 9, 2022
Existing soft robots face challenges given the need for an improved flexible robot elongation rate, bending angle and movement flexibility in space target acquisition, disaster search and rescue, unknown environment detection and other fields. Yoshim...
Annelida Mechanical Phenomena Animals Motion Robotics Biomechanical Phenomena
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Modeling and control of cable-driven continuum robot used for minimally invasive surgery.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine Dec 1, 2022
Continuum robot has great advantages in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) due to the slenderness and dexterity. But the friction and backlash result in the low trajectory tracking accuracy. This paper aims to study the transmission process of the driv...
Mechanical Phenomena Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures Equipment Design Robotics Computer Simulation
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