Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 31, 2022
This paper presents an autonomous robotic system, an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), for in-field soil sampling and analysis of nitrates. Compared to standard methods of soil analysis it has several advantages: each sample is individually analyzed com...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 31, 2022
The demand for cost-efficient manufacturing of complex metal components has driven research for metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) such as Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). WAAM enables automated, time- and material-efficient manufacturing of ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 31, 2022
Smart maintenance is essential to achieving a safe and reliable railway, but traditional maintenance deployment is costly and heavily human-involved. Ineffective job execution or failure in preventive maintenance can lead to railway service disruptio...
Nanoscale horizons
May 31, 2022
Nonlinear DNA signal amplification with an enzyme-free isothermal self-assembly process is uniquely useful in nanotechnology and nanomedicine. However, progress in this direction is hampered by the lack of effective design models of leak-resistant DN...
Frontiers in public health
May 31, 2022
Artificial intelligence researchers conducted different studies to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Unlike other studies, this paper isn't for early infection diagnosis, but for preventing the transmission of COVID-19 in social environments. Among the ...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
May 30, 2022
BACKGROUND: For many co-manipulative applications, variable damping is a valuable feature provided by robots. One approach is implementing a high viscosity at low velocities and a low viscosity at high velocities. This, however, is proven to have the...
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology
May 30, 2022
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine whether objective bladder function after robot-assisted radical hysterectomy (RRH) for early-stage cervical cancer is correlated with subjective patient-reported outcomes and quality of life during the first year after RRH...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 30, 2022
Amid increasing demands for planetary exploration, wide-range autonomous exploration is still a great challenge for existing planetary rovers, which calls for new planetary rovers with novel locomotive mechanisms and corresponding control strategies....
Nature communications
May 30, 2022
Liquid handling robots have the potential to automate many procedures in life sciences. However, they are not in widespread use in academic settings, where funding, space and maintenance specialists are usually limiting. In addition, current robots r...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 30, 2022
Collective behaviours in homogeneous shoals provide several benefits to conspecifics, although mixed-species aggregations have been reported to often occur. Mixed aggregations may confer several beneficial effects such as antipredator and foraging ad...