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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slit in a Nest Site Influences the Nest Site Selection in Cavity Nesting Ant Colonies

Insects
For ants, nests provide a refuge against predators and protection from environmental factors. Thus, choosing a good nest site is important for an ant colony, but nest sites are limited resources. Ants of the genus Temnothorax inhabit small cavities in, e.
Anna Gruszka, Mateusz Rolski, Mariia Marczak, Sławomir Mitrus   +3 more
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Nest-site selection by roseate terns breeding on aride island, Seychelles [PDF]

, 1998
Nest-site selection by tropical Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) was examined on Aride Island, Seychelles. Continuous variables reflecting concealment of the nest site, shelter, vegetation cover and intraspecific nest density were measured for nest-sites
Ramos, Jaime
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Optofluidic Raman Analysis and Capacity Recovery in Li‐ion Cells

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Operando Raman spectroscopy is used to monitor the degradation of commercial Li‐ion cells. Using a microfluidic access port, small amounts of electrolyte are sampled into a hollow‐core optical fibre, where fibre‐enhanced Raman analysis reveals Li+ solvation changes and solvent evolution.
Ermanno Miele, Wesley M. Dose, Ian A. K. Davidson, Hesham Sakr, Natalie V. Wheeler, Francesco Poletti, Michael De Volder, Clare P. Grey, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Tijmen G. Euser   +9 more
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Variation in common blackbird (Turdus merula) nest characteristics in urban and suburban localities in Crimea

Zoodiversity, 2020
Blackbird Turdus merula is a model species for studying the impact of environmental factors on the form and structure of nests. In the middle of XX, this species began to expand its range into the artificial forests of the Ukrainian steppe zone.
V. M. Kucherenko, A. V. Ivanovskaya
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Does foraging efficiency vary with colony size in the fairy martin Petrochelidon ariel? [PDF]

, 2009
Colonial breeding occurs in a wide range of taxa, however the advantages promoting its evolution and maintenance remain poorly understood. In many avian species, breeding colonies vary by several orders of magnitude and one approach to investigating the ...
Alexander, Barrett, Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown, Buckley, Danchin, Davis, Higgins, Hoi, Hoogland, Jones, Krebs, Lack, Magrath, Magrath, Magrath, Møller, Nolan, Norberg, Pulliam, Rasbash, Richner, Rolland, Safran, Shields, Snapp, Turner, Turner, Varela, Ward, Weaver, Wittenberger, Witter, Wright   +37 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
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, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat selection and reproduction of red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio) in relation to abundance of potential avian nest predators [PDF]

, 2010
Many studies of farmland bird species have related abundance of species to different habitat variables, whereas few studies have incorporated the effects of predation on habitat selection. However, it is generally assumed that prey species select habitat
Roos, Steffan
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The organization of soil disposal by ants [PDF]

, 2007
Colonies of Pheidole ambigua ants excavate soil and drop it outside the nest entrance. The deposition of thousands of loads leads to the formation of regular ring-shaped piles. How is this pattern generated? This study investigated soil pile formation on
Holcombe, M., Ratnieks, F.L.W., Robinson, E.J.H.   +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source