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The SSSA-MyHand: A Dexterous Lightweight Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
The replacement of a missing hand by a prosthesis is one of the most fascinating challenges in rehabilitation engineering. State of art prostheses are curtailed by the physical features of the hand, like poor functionality and excessive weight. Here ...

A robust robotic high-throughput antibody purification platform.

Journal of chromatography. A
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have become the fastest growing segment in the drug market with annual sales of more than 40 billion US$ in 2013. The selection of lead candidate molecules involves the generation of large repertoires of antibodies from w...

Pharmaceutical Raw Material Identification Using Miniature Near-Infrared (MicroNIR) Spectroscopy and Supervised Pattern Recognition Using Support Vector Machine.

Applied spectroscopy
Near-infrared spectroscopy as a rapid and non-destructive analytical technique offers great advantages for pharmaceutical raw material identification (RMID) to fulfill the quality and safety requirements in pharmaceutical industry. In this study, we ...

A locust-inspired miniature jumping robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Unmanned ground vehicles are mostly wheeled, tracked, or legged. These locomotion mechanisms have a limited ability to traverse rough terrain and obstacles that are higher than the robot's center of mass. In order to improve the mobility of small rob...

Effect of bladder wall thickness on miniature pneumatic artificial muscle performance.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are actuators known for their high power to weight ratio, natural compliance and light weight. Due to these advantages, PAMs have been used for orthotic devices and robotic limbs. Small scale PAMs have the same adv...

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion in...

Confined swimming of bio-inspired microrobots in rectangular channels.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Controlled swimming of bio-inspired microrobots in confined spaces needs to be understood well for potential use in medical applications in conduits and vessels inside the body. In this study, experimental and computational studies are performed for ...

Miniaturized spectroscopy and AI-driven probes in food industry automation.

Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Spectroscopy is a rapidly advancing analytical technique, which is increasingly employed in the food industry as a non-destructive and rapid quality control tool. Based on spectral analysis and developed multivariate predictive models this technique ...

Dual high-stroke and high-work capacity artificial muscles inspired by DNA supercoiling.

Science robotics
Powering miniature robots using actuating materials that mimic skeletal muscle is attractive because conventional mechanical drive systems cannot be readily downsized. However, muscle is not the only mechanically active system in nature, and the thou...