Scientific reports
Jun 20, 2024
Humans can easily perform various types of hugs in human contact and affection experience. With the prevalence of robots in social applications, they would be expected to possess the capability of hugs as humans do. However, it is still not an easy t...
Soft robotics
Jun 19, 2024
The octopus has attracted widespread attention owing to its unique underwater movement and its ability to escape with inkjets, which also promoted the development of underwater bionic robots. This study introduces a magnetic octopus robot (MOR) 3D pr...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jun 19, 2024
Mechanical computing provides an information processing method to realize sensing-analyzing-actuation integrated mechanical intelligence and, when combined with neural networks, can be more efficient for data-rich cognitive tasks. The requirement of ...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Jun 19, 2024
Jumping requires high actuation power for achieving high speed in a short time. Especially, organisms and robots at the insect scale jump in order to overcome size limits on the speed of locomotion. As small jumpers suffer from intrinsically small po...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jun 19, 2024
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) show severe attention deficits, hindering their capacity to acquire new skills. The automatic assessment of their attention response would provide the therapists with an important biomarker to better quant...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jun 18, 2024
Reinforcement learning aided by the skill conception exhibits potent capabilities in guiding autonomous agents toward acquiring meaningful behaviors. However, in the current landscape of reinforcement learning, a skill is often merely a rudimentary a...
Nature communications
Jun 18, 2024
Untethered miniature soft robots have significant application potentials in biomedical and industrial fields due to their space accessibility and safe human interaction. However, the lack of selective and forceful actuation is still challenging in re...
Journal of medical Internet research
Jun 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Technological advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive algorithms, and internet-based coaches have contributed to the development of devices capable of responding to some of the challenges resulting from demographic aging....
Science and engineering ethics
Jun 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been recognised as a challenge to responsibility. Much of this discourse has been framed around robots, such as autonomous weapons or self-driving cars, where we arguably lack control over a machine's behaviour a...
Soins. Gerontologie
Jun 18, 2024
The emergence of social robots in gerontology has introduced new playful and reassuring media into nursing homes and geriatric wards. Despite promising results, their complexity hinders their widespread adoption. The Intelligent Interactive Care Syst...