Nature methods
Jan 18, 2024
The development of high-resolution microscopes has made it possible to investigate cellular processes in 3D and over time. However, observing fast cellular dynamics remains challenging because of photobleaching and phototoxicity. Here we report the i...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 16, 2024
This paper presents a model for generating expressive robot motions based on human expressive movements. The proposed data-driven approach combines variational autoencoders and a generative adversarial network framework to extract the essential featu...
Acta neurochirurgica
Jan 12, 2024
PURPOSE: Attaining sufficient microsurgical skills is paramount for neurosurgical trainees. Kinematic analysis of surgical instruments using video offers the potential for an objective assessment of microsurgical proficiency, thereby enhancing surgic...
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...