Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi +4 more
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications
Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun +3 more
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Pumping tests in fractal media
The investigation of fractured rocks and their hydraulic properties has recently received growing attention as the result of plans to build nuclear waste repositories.
Pälike, Heiko
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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Sealing Performance and Optimization of Maintenance Free Bearing of Beam Pumping Unit
The lubrication and sealing performance of the maintenance free tail bearing(sealed self-aligning roller bearing)of the beam pumping unit designed based on conventional experience cannot effectively apply to the unique swing and crank scissors difference
Wang Xiaogang +6 more
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The use of composite materials in the elements of the beam-balanced pumping unit
The article discusses the potential of using composite materials in the construction of the beam-balanced pumping unit. Traditionally, these constructions are made from steel with high strength and reliability.
G. I. Bikbulatova +4 more
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Magnetically Actuated Microrobot for Drug Delivery: Current Progress and Challenges
Magnetically actuated microrobots are reshaping targeted drug delivery through wireless propulsion, programmable materials, and localized therapeutic release. This review examines how fabrication, body material selection, structural architecture, loading mechanisms, and imaging‐guided control converge to enable microrobotic therapies while identifying ...
Yang Yang, David J. Cappelleri
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Design of 3D Visualization Monitoring System for Oil Field Pumping Unit Based on Unity3D
: Aiming at the defects of single monitoring form, low degree of 3D visualization and poor linkage of pumping unit, the information-physical real-time mapping is introduced to develop the 3D visualization monitoring system for oil field pumping unit. The
Wang, Yi +3 more
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Møte i arbeidsgruppen for Oria 05-11-2021.
Møte i arbeidsgruppen for Oria 05-11-2021.Møte i arbeidsgruppen for Oria 05-11 ...
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