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Miniaturized soft bio-hybrid robotics: a step forward into healthcare applications.

Lab on a chip
Soft robotics is an emerging discipline that employs soft flexible materials such as fluids, gels and elastomers in order to enhance the use of robotics in healthcare applications. Compared to their rigid counterparts, soft robotic systems have flexi...

A design concept of parallel elasticity extracted from biological muscles for engineered actuators.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Series elastic actuation that takes inspiration from biological muscle-tendon units has been extensively studied and used to address the challenges (e.g. energy efficiency, robustness) existing in purely stiff robots. However, there also exists anoth...

Modeling and analysis of bio-syncretic micro-swimmers for cardiomyocyte-based actuation.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Along with sensation and intelligence, actuation is one of the most important factors in the development of conventional robots. Many novel achievements have been made regarding bio-based actuators to solve the challenges of conventional actuation. H...

Human-like compliant locomotion: state of the art of robotic implementations.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This review paper provides a synthetic yet critical overview of the key biomechanical principles of human bipedal walking and their current implementation in robotic platforms. We describe the functional role of human joints, addressing in particular...

Haptic Feedback Manipulation During Botulinum Toxin Injection Therapy for Focal Hand Dystonia Patients: A Possible New Assistive Strategy.

IEEE transactions on haptics
Abnormality of sensorimotor integration in the basal ganglia and cortex has been reported in the literature for patients with task-specific focal hand dystonia (FHD). In this study, we investigate the effect of manipulation of kinesthetic input in pe...

Robot-Aided Mapping of Wrist Proprioceptive Acuity across a 3D Workspace.

PloS one
Proprioceptive signals from peripheral mechanoreceptors form the basis for bodily perception and are known to be essential for motor control. However we still have an incomplete understanding of how proprioception differs between joints, whether it d...

Prevention of Unilateral Pulmonary Edema Complicating Robotic Mitral Valve Operations.

The Annals of thoracic surgery
BACKGROUND: Unilateral pulmonary edema (UPE) has been reported after mitral operations performed through the right side of the chest. The clinical presentation is compatible with an ischemia-reperfusion injury. This report describes modifications to ...

Theoretical and experimental study on a compliant flipper-leg during terrestrial locomotion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
An amphibious robot with straight compliant flipper-legs can conquer various amphibious environments. The robot can rotate its flipper-legs and utilize their large deflection to walk on rough terrain, and it can oscillate the straight flipper-legs to...

A New Artificial Neural Network Approach in Solving Inverse Kinematics of Robotic Arm (Denso VP6242).

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
This paper presents a novel inverse kinematics solution for robotic arm based on artificial neural network (ANN) architecture. The motion of robotic arm is controlled by the kinematics of ANN. A new artificial neural network approach for inverse kine...