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Unlocking the potential of Eudrilus eugeniae in mitigating the pollution risk of pesticides and heavy metals: Fostering machine learning tactics to optimize environmental health.

The Science of the total environment
Agro-industrial waste management remains a critical challenge in sustainable development, particularly due to contamination with heterogeneous micropollutants such as heavy metals (HMs), pesticides, and polyphenols. This study explores an innovative ...

CPG-based neural control of peristaltic planar locomotion in an earthworm-like robot: evaluation of nonlinear oscillators.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Earthworm-like robots have excellent locomotion capability in confined environments. Central pattern generator (CPG) based controllers utilize the dynamics of coupled nonlinear oscillators to spontaneously generate actuation signals for all segments,...

Design and mechanical analysis of a novel modular bionic earthworm robot with upright functionality.

Scientific reports
With the escalating demand for exploration within confined spaces, bionic design methodologies have attracted considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to the intrinsic limitations of human access to hazardous environments. However, cont...

Machine Learning Allowed Interpreting Toxicity of a Fe-Doped CuO NM Library Large Data Set─An Environmental In Vivo Case Study.

ACS applied materials & interfaces
The wide variation of nanomaterial (NM) characters (size, shape, and properties) and the related impacts on living organisms make it virtually impossible to assess their safety; the need for modeling has been urged for long. We here investigate the c...

Earthworm-Inspired Soft Skin Crawling Robot.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Earthworms are fascinating animals capable of crawling and burrowing through various terrains using peristaltic motion and the directional friction response of their epidermis. Anisotropic anchoring governed by tiny appendages on their skin called se...

Multimodal steerable earthworm-inspired soft robot based on vacuum and positive pressure powered pneumatic actuators.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This article presents a multimodal steerable earthworm-inspired soft robot based on vacuum and positive pressure powered pneumatic actuators capable of crawling both inside pipelines and on planar surfaces. The optimized modular vacuum pressure-drive...

A CPG-Based Versatile Control Framework for Metameric Earthworm-Like Robotic Locomotion.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Annelids such as earthworms are considered to have central pattern generators (CPGs) that generate rhythms in neural circuits to coordinate the deformation of body segments for effective locomotion. At present, the states of earthworm-like robot segm...

An earthworm-like modular soft robot for locomotion in multi-terrain environments.

Scientific reports
Robotic locomotion in subterranean environments is still unsolved, and it requires innovative designs and strategies to overcome the challenges of burrowing and moving in unstructured conditions with high pressure and friction at depths of a few cent...

Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots.

Soft robotics
Many marine creatures, gastropods, and earthworms generate continuous traveling waves in their bodies for locomotion within marine environments, complex surfaces, and inside narrow gaps. In this work, we study theoretically and experimentally the use...

Lateral bending and buckling aids biological and robotic earthworm anchoring and locomotion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Earthworms () are characterized by soft, highly flexible and extensible bodies, and are capable of locomoting in most terrestrial environments. Previous studies of earthworm movement focused on the use of retrograde peristaltic gaits in which control...