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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 19, 2022
Tactile information is crucial for recognizing physical interactions, manipulation of an object, and motion planning for a robotic gripper; however, concurrent tactile technologies have certain limitations over directional force sensing. In particula...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Nov 1, 2022
PURPOSE: In robot-assisted transoral surgery, frequent retraction operations are essential to leave space for the surgical procedure. Commercial clinical retractors are simply composed of mechanical parts and cannot sense the touching force.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 27, 2022
This paper mainly focuses on various types of robots driven or actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA) element in the last decade which has created the potential functionality of SMA in robotics technology, that is classified and discussed. The wide spe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 24, 2022
Robot hands play an important role in the interaction between robots and the environment, and the precision and complexity of their tasks in work production are becoming higher and higher. However, because the traditional manipulator has too many dri...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jul 15, 2022
Digital technologies hold enormous potential for improving the performance of future-generation sorting and processing plants; however, this potential remains largely untapped. Improved sensor-based material flow characterization (SBMC) methods could...
ISA transactions
Dec 1, 2022
Canard is a cutting-edge aerodynamic attachment for lowering the vehicle's drag coefficient by efficiently directing the airflow as well as reducing the lift coefficient by enhancing down-force. This paper aims to simulate the airflow crossing over t...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 28, 2022
The widely used stability parameter, the zero moment point (ZMP), which is usually defined on the ground, is redefined, in this paper, in two different ways to acquire a more general form that allows its application to systems that are not supported ...
Nature communications
Jul 7, 2022
Biohybrid is a newly emerging and promising approach to construct soft robotics and soft machines with novel functions, high energy efficiency, great adaptivity and intelligence. Despite many unique advantages of biohybrid systems, it is well known t...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Dec 1, 2022
Small-scale soft robots are attracting increasing interest for visible and potential applications owing to their safety and tolerance resulting from their intrinsic soft bodies or compliant structures. However, it is not sufficient that the soft bodi...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sep 1, 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...