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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
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, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 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
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Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
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Retina‐Inspired Bi‐Based Terahertz Photonic Neuromorphic Devices

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Combined with effective band alignment and substrate engineering, bismuth materials are introduced to form terahertz photonic bio‐inspired devices with picosecond short‐term plasticity to enable multi‐scene visual perception. Thus obtained hardware through the terahertz optical neural network (THz‐ONN) demonstrates high recognition accuracy, providing ...
Pujing Zhang, Donggang Xie, Longyu Shi, Mengyuan Wang, Huiwen Shi, Yu Wu, Menglei Li, Guangwei She, Peijie Wang, Wensheng Shi, Cunlin Zhang, Kuijuan Jin, Guozhen Yang, Qingli Zhou, Chen Ge   +14 more
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A bionic compound eye for quantitative detection of exosomes

Nano Research
Exosomes are important cancer biomarkers, however, the accuracy of exosome detection is greatly reduced due to heterogeneity of each exosome. Detecting exosomes with a larger field-of-view (FOV) might be a good solution.
Yuanyuan Liu, Jinxiu Wei, Tingyu Wang, Xuemeng Li, Kuo Yang, Zhuyuan Wang, Lei Wu, Shenfei Zong, Yiping Cui   +8 more
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Photonic‐Enabled Energy‐Efficient Transparent Neuromorphic Computing Devices: A Review

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Transparent photonic neuromorphic computing devices merge optics and brain‐inspired computing to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks with ultrafast, low‐energy processing. By exploiting transparent oxides, 2D materials, phase‐change materials, and hybrid heterostructures, these platforms enable photonic synapses, memory, and logic for see‐through edge ...
Shuvaraj Ghosh, Ki‐bum Lee, Junghyeon Lee, Seunghee Cho, Malkeshkumar Patel, Hangfei Li, Yu Wen, Ye Zhou, Joondong Kim   +8 more
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Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Method for Bionic Compound-Eye System Based on MVSNet Network

, 2022
In practical scenarios, when shooting conditions are limited, high efficiency of image shooting and success rate of 3D reconstruction are required. To achieve the application of bionic compound eyes in small portable devices for 3D reconstruction, auto ...
Weiqi Jin, Jiaan Xue, Xinpeng Deng, Su Qiu   +3 more
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A Bio‐Inspired Visual Sensor With UV‐to‐NIR Fusion for Enhanced Recognition in Autonomous Driving Systems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by the sophisticated multilayer retinal architecture found in Pacific salmon eyes, a novel van der Waals heterojunction sensor based on NbNiTe5/BP is designed. Upon illumination at distinct wavelengths of 365 and 820 nm, the device exhibits distinctive bipolar photocurrent responses with opposite polarities. This unique optoelectronic behavior
Tianle Zeng, Zishen Zhao, Keqin Tang, Yawen Luo, Junxin Yan, Kun Ye, Jinlu Liu, Zhuo Dong, Zhipeng Yu, Weiming Lv, Ruicheng Li, Yenasheng Li, Lixuan Liu, Tianyu Xue, Chun Zhao, Yan Zhou, Kai Zhang, Zhongming Zeng, Zhongyuan Liu   +18 more
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Suppressing Photothermal Artifacts in Flexible Fluorescent Fiber‐Optic Sensors for Accurate and Precise In Situ Temperature Monitoring

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A partial‐inner‐cladding optical fiber (PICOF) is developed to suppress photothermal artifacts in fluorescent fiber‐optic thermometry by isolating the sensing layer from regions prone to photothermal effects. This structural design strategy enables high‐fidelity operation at elevated excitation power, achieving high accuracy (maximum absolute error ...
Sijie Su, Jinjian Yu, Pengyuan Dong, Xin Wang, Jing Lyu, Jiulin Gan, Enhai Song, Qinyuan Zhang   +7 more
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A Salient Information Processing System for Bionic Eye with Application to Obstacle Avoidance [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we present a visual processing system for bionic eye with a focus on obstacle avoidance. Bionic eye aims at restoring the sense of vision to people living with blindness and low vision.
Stacey, Ashley, Barnes, Nick, LI, Yi
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