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Toward Perception‐Native Electronic Skin: Bio‐Inspired In‐/Near‐Sensor and Neuromorphic Computing for Humanoid Robots

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Dense tactile streams from across the humanoid body converge on collide in a central wiring and data bottleneck. By relocating computation closer to and then into the skin itself, near‐ and in‐sensor architectures, together with neuromorphic computing, chart a path toward perception‐native electronic skin, in which the conversion of stimulus into ...
Mijin Kim, Chang‐Jae Beak, Jiyoung Park, Youngdo Jung, Sunjong Oh, Sin‐Hyung Lee, Bo‐Yeon Lee   +6 more
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The Fukushima accident was preventable [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2015
The 11 March 2011 tsunami was probably the fourth largest in the past 100 years and killed over 15 000 people. The magnitude of the design tsunami triggering earthquake affecting this region of Japan had been grossly underestimated, and the tsunami hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (NPP), causing the third most severe accident in an NPP ...
Costas Synolakis, Utku Kânoğlu
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Moisture‐Adaptive Triboelectric Materials and Platforms: Design Strategies, Performance Enhancement, and Applications in Energy Harvesting and Wearable Electronics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes moisture‐adaptive strategies that enable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) to operate across diverse moisture conditions. It examines moisture‐management methods, including exclusion, directional transport, removal, and utilization, with charge‐regulation approaches based on interfacial, dielectric, and structural engineering.
Junzhe Gan, Zhao Sha, Xuehua Zhang, Hoang‐Phuong Phan, Jin Zhang   +4 more
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From Rigid to Soft Robotic Approaches for Neuroendoscopy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic assistance has had minimal impact on deep intraventricular surgeries, where small‐scale, precision, and reduced invasiveness can contribute to improved patient outcomes. Emerging technologies in rigid, soft, and hybrid robotics are reviewed to identify the most promising mechanisms for deep brain navigation in addition to an attempt to identify
Kieran Gilday, Irena Zubak, Andreas Raabe, Josie Hughes   +3 more
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Prevalence of and relationship between rhinoconjunctivitis and lower airway diseases in compost workers with current or former exposure to organic dust

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2014
[b]introduction and objective[/b]. The relationship between allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma is well characterized. However, it remains unknown whether an association exists between symptoms of upper and lower airway diseases and occupational ...
Frank Hoffmeyer, Vera van Kampen, Dirk Taeger, Anja Deckert, Nina Rosenkranz, Marita Kaßen, Agnès Leonie Schantora, Thomas Brüning, Monika Raulf, Jürgen Bünger   +9 more
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Animal allergens and their presence in the environment

Frontiers in Immunology, 2014
Exposure to animal allergens is a major risk factor for sensitization and allergic diseases. Besides mites and cockroaches, the most important animal allergens are derived from mammals.
Eva eZahradnik, Monika eRaulf
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A Multidirectional Textile Interface for Remote Control Using Dynamic Area‐Based Capacitance Modulation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Here, we present a textile, wearable capacitive interface enabling multidirectional remote control by dynamically modulating electrode overlap and spacing via a freely gliding upper electrode. A forearm‐mounted prototype drives robotic and media tasks with 12–15 ms latency, maintains < 0.8% drift after 500 cycles, and remains stably functional at 90 ...
Cagatay Gumus, Fulya Yenilmez, Kadir Ozlem, Hakan Kestir, Eren Tasdemir, Berkant Bakisli, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay, Asli Tuncay Atalay   +8 more
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Risk Analysis of Pile Pitching and Pulling on Offshore Wind Power Jack-Up Platforms Based on a Fault Tree and Fuzzy Bayesian Network

Energies
Safety accidents during pile pitching and pulling operations on offshore wind power jack-up platforms occur frequently, yet research into their underlying causes is insufficient. This study delved into the causes of accidents related to pile pitching and
Hao Xu, Jinqian Zeng, Lingzhi Xi, Hui Huang, Qiang Zhang, Dingding Yang, Rui Wang, Chengyuan Zhang, Zhenming Li, Xinjiao Tian   +9 more
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki, Ilche Georgievski, Marco Aiello   +2 more
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report: Volume 4. Other Technical Documents

, 2003
Fourth volume of the final report produced by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board including documents produced by NASA and other organizations which were provided to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in support of its inquiry into the ...
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
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