Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Shear Bond Strength of Silane-Containing Universal Adhesives in Repairing Aged 3D-Printed Provisional Restorations With Flowable Composite: An In Vitro Study. [PDF]
Prawatvatchara W +5 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Engineering a 3D matrix from porcine plasma for enhanced cell proliferation and differentiation. [PDF]
Ma Y +12 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Mechanics and Failure Mechanisms of Rigid-Flexible 3D-Printed FRP Miura-<i>Ori</i> Structures. [PDF]
Qiao Z +9 more
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This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao +6 more
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An Augmented Reality-Based Navigation System for Stereotactic Brain Biopsy with Multi-Objective Path Planning and Hybrid Registration. [PDF]
Zhang T +5 more
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Comparative Analysis of XFEM and Phase Field Approaches for Fracture Prediction in Flexible Ti-6Al-4V Thoracic Implants. [PDF]
Bolaños A +3 more
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Augmented and virtual reality in dental and oral and maxillofacial surgery education: a systematic review with a taxonomy of training technologies. [PDF]
Maes M +3 more
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