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Compliant Pneumatic Feet with Real‐Time Stiffness Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A compliant pneumatic foot with real‐time variable stiffness enables humanoid robots to adapt to changing terrains. Using onboard vision and pressure control, the foot modulates stiffness within each gait cycle, reducing impact forces and improving balance. The design, cast in soft silicone with embedded air chambers and Kevlar wrapping, offers durable,
Irene Frizza, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Philippe Fraisse, Gentiane Venture   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing Environmental Activists: Developing Environmental Agency and Engagement Through Children’s Fiction. [PDF]

, 2010
We explore how story has the potential to encourage environmental engagement and a sense of agency provided that critical discussion takes place. We illuminate this with reference to the philosophies of John Macmurray on personal agency and social ...
Adams R., Anderson H., Arendt H., Bakhtin M.M., Beard L., Bigger S., Bigger S., Blass T., Brett M.G., Church R., Conford P., Crick B., Dewey J., Ellis C., Fromm E., Gardiner M., Grahame K., Gruenewald D.A., Hayano D.M., Horkheimer M., Horwood W., Hunt P., Husserl E., Illich I., Jean Webb, Keith M., Kockelmans J.J., Macmurray J., Macmurray J., McDermott J.J., Paul L., Paver M., Paver M., Payne P.G., Payne P.G., Prince A., Pullman P., Ricoeur P., Ricoeur P., Ricoeur P., Ricoeur P., Seton E.T., Seton E.T., Seton E.T., Seton E.T., Seton E.T., Seton‐Barber D., Smith M.K., Steiner C.M., Stephen Bigger, Weston A., White M., Zimbardo P.   +52 more
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Backpropagation Through Soft Body: Investigating Information Processing in Brain–Body Coupling Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka, Katsuma Inoue, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kohei Nakajima   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual-system theory and the role of consciousness in intentional action [PDF]

, 2019
According to the standard view in philosophy, intentionality is the mark of genuine action. In psychology, human cognition and agency are now widely explained in terms of the workings of two distinct systems (or types of processes), and intentionality is
Schlosser, Markus E.
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu, Chunlong Wang, Xiaohang Sun, Hongwei Guo, Jiayao Ma, Yan Chen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sleep Alters the Velocity of Physiological Brain Pulsations in Humans

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Sleep alters I/CSF oscillatory flow, driven by increased respiratory (29%) and vasomotor pulsation (21%) velocities, while cardiovascular pulsations decreased by (22%). Velocity is quantified using optical flow analysis of MREG data. Spectral power increases alongside these pulsations (spatial correlation, r = 0.35 and r = 0.39, respectively ...
Ahmed Elabasy, Heta Helakari, Tommi Väyrynen, Zalán Rajna, Niko Huotari, Lauri Raitamaa, Ville Isokoski, Matti Järvelä, Mika Kaakinen, Johanna Piispala, Mika Kallio, Vesa Korhonen, Tapio Seppänen, Vesa Kiviniemi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ways of Knowing Agency and Development: notes on the philosophy of science and the conduct and use of inquiry [PDF]

, 2023
Pablo Garcés‐Velástegui
openalex   +1 more source

The uncritical realism of realist evaluation [PDF]

, 2015
This article is a response to Ray Pawson’s critique of critical realism, the philosophy of science elaborated by Roy Bhaskar. I argue with Pawson’s interpretation of critical realism’s positions on both natural and social science and his charges ...
Porter, Sam
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Protein Language Model‐Guided Engineering of a 2,3‐Butanediol Dehydrogenase for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclic α‐Hydroxy Ketones

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A (2R,3R)‐butanediol dehydrogenase from Bacillus subtilis (BsBDH) is engineered for the enantioselective synthesis of 2‐hydroxycyclohexanone. A PASS computational design strategy is proposed to enhance the thermostability of BsBDH. Moreover, ESM‐1v combined with ISM is utilized for enhancing and inverting its stereoselectivity.
Haote Ding, Ling Jiang, Yijia Song, Zhongji Pu, Lirong Yang, Haoran Yu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life as Self-Maintenance

Ethics in Progress
The article constructs the organism as a living being and – unlike an automaton – as an individual concerned with its own self-maintenance, endowed with intrinsic purposiveness, autoregulation, and with an agency of the self as well.
Dieter Wandschneider
doaj   +1 more source