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Scientific reports
Jan 4, 2024
Modern energy systems are finding new applications for magnetohydrodynamic rheological bio-inspired pumping systems. The incorporation of the electrically conductive qualities of flowing liquids into the biological geometries, rheological behavior, a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 25, 2023
In the recent era, 2D human pose estimation (HPE) has become an integral part of advanced computer vision (CV) applications, particularly in understanding human behaviors. Despite challenges such as occlusion, unfavorable lighting, and motion blur, a...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Dec 20, 2023
Real-world robot applications usually require navigating agents to face multiple destinations. Besides, the real-world crowded environments usually contain dynamic and static crowds that implicitly interact with each other during navigation. To addre...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 20, 2023
In the field of quadruped robots, the most classic motion control algorithm is based on model prediction control (MPC). However, this method poses challenges as it necessitates the precise construction of the robot's dynamics model, making it difficu...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 13, 2023
Accuracy validation of gait analysis using pose estimation with artificial intelligence (AI) remains inadequate, particularly in objective assessments of absolute error and similarity of waveform patterns. This study aimed to clarify objective measur...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Dec 7, 2023
Snake robots have been widely used in challenging environments, such as confined spaces. However, most existing snake robots with large length/diameter ratios have low stiffness, and this limits their accuracy and utility. To remedy this, a novel 'ma...
Science robotics
Dec 6, 2023
A flexible spine is critical to the motion capability of most animals and plays a pivotal role in their agility. Although state-of-the-art legged robots have already achieved very dynamic and agile movement solely relying on their legs, they still ex...
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...
Biomedical physics & engineering express
Nov 23, 2023
Anatomical segmentations generated using artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to significantly improve video fluoroscopic swallow study (VFS) analysis. AI segments allow for various metrics to be determined without additional time constrai...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 22, 2023
The advent of variable stiffness soft robotic grippers furnishes a conduit for exploration and manipulation within uncharted, non-structured environments. The paper provides a comprehensive review of the necessary technologies for the configuration d...