Miniaturized Magnetic Tip Design for Endoluminal Vine Robot Navigation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A magnetic tip mount is designed for a miniaturized 7 mm soft‐growing vine robot to enable wireless magnetic steering and onboard imaging, while preserving a 3 mm working channel. The internal–external ring magnets design balances magnetic attachment with low eversion pressure. Experiments demonstrate ±90° steering, 34 mm bending radius, and successful
Andrea Yanez Trujillo +4 more
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Effect of Different PTFE Coatings Applied to 18CrNiMo7-6 Steel on the Coefficient of Friction and Wear Under Dry Sliding Contact Using the Ball-on-Disk Method at Different Loads. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Krbata M +9 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao +6 more
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Comparison of Approaches to Determining the Coefficient of Friction in Stretch-Forming Conditions. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Trzepieciński T +4 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.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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Strong strain dependence of friction in graphene kirigami allows engineering a negative coefficient of friction. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AJuel MM +2 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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Estimation of the Kinetic Coefficient of Friction of Asphalt Pavements Using the Top Topography Surface Roughness Power Spectrum. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Sun B, Luo H, Rong Y, Yang Y.
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali +6 more
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Surface Topography-Based Classification of Coefficient of Friction in Strip-Drawing Test Using Kohonen Self-Organising Maps. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Szwajka K +4 more
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