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Design and Modeling of a Parallel-Pipe-Crawling Pneumatic Soft Robot

IEEE Access, 2019
Soft robots have unique advantages over traditional rigid robots and have broad application prospects in many fields, such as pipe inspections. Several of the reported pipe-crawling soft robots have long actuation periods and small locomotion speeds ...
Zhiyuan Zhang, Xueqian Wang, S. Wang, Deshan Meng, Bin Liang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An earthworm-inspired soft crawling robot controlled by friction [PDF]

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2017
We present the design, fabrication, modeling and feedback control of an earthworm-inspired soft robot that crawls on flat surfaces by actively changing the frictional forces acting on its body.
Joey Z. Ge, Ariel A. Calderón, N. O. Pérez-Arancibia   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anomalous Stiffening of a Conjugated Polymer During Electrochemical Oxidation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The electromechanical response of a thienothiophene‐based conjugated polymer with triethylene glycol side chains is investigated. Electrochemical nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy reveal a modest and reversible increase in elastic modulus at room temperature upon electrochemical oxidation.
Judith Pons i Tarrés, Di Zhu, Chiara Musumeci, Youngseok Kim, Dilara Meli, Hang Yu, Meghna Jha, Bryan D. Paulsen, Ruiheng Wu, Joost Kimpel, Zachary Laswick, Sri Harish Kumar Paleti, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Jenny Nelson, Jonathan Rivnay, Christian Müller   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge of mothers regarding infant’s developmental milestones in four domains (gross motor, fine motor, language and personal and social) – A cross sectional study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: In India, children with neurodevelopmental disabilities are being referred late. One of the possible reasons could be lack of mothers’ knowledge regarding developmental milestones.
Pooja Thakur, Nalina Gupta
doaj   +1 more source

How crawling and manual object exploration are related to the mental rotation abilities of 9-month-old infants

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
The present experiment examined whether the mental rotation ability of 9-month-old infants was related to their abilities to crawl and manually explore objects. Forty-eight 9-month-old infants were tested; half of them had been crawling for an average of
Gudrun eSchwarzer, Claudia eFreitag, Nina eSchum   +2 more
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Colloidal Crack Sintering Lithography for Light‐Induced Patterning of Particle Assemblies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Colloidal crack sintering lithography (CCSL) is a microfabrication technique that uses light‐induced photothermal heating to trigger sintering and controlled cracking in polymer colloidal assemblies. Local structural changes generate microchannels and patterns, enabling direct writing of diverse topographic motifs.
Marius Schoettle, Ariane V. Mader, Willem L. Noorduin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Four-Chamber Multimodal Soft Actuator and Its Application

Actuators
Soft robotics represents a rapidly advancing and significant subfield within modern robotics. However, existing soft actuators often face challenges including unwanted deformation modes, limited functional diversity, and a lack of versatility. This paper
Jiabin Yang, Helei Zhu, Gang Chen, Jianbo Cao, Jiwei Yuan, Kaiwei Wu   +5 more
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Il futuro regime dei tassi di cambio.

Moneta e Credito, 2014
When the Committee of Twenty decided to rename the exchange-rate regime rather than reform it, some two weeks after the system had collapsed, it immediately became clear that the ambitious attempt to write a new monetary constitution for the world had ...
J. WILLIAMSON
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Adaptive 4D‐Printed Vascular Stents With Low‐Temperature‐Activated and Intelligent Deployment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Microarchitected coronary artery stents were fabricated using a polycaprolactone (PCL)‐based shape memory polymer (SMP) composite via projection micro‐stereolithography (PµSL) 4D printing. By incorporating diethyl phthalate (DEP) as a plasticizer, the thermal transition temperature (Ttran) was modulated to about 37°C, enabling rapid and autonomous ...
Yannan Li, Yifan Pan, Chikahiro Imashiro, Chaolun Xu, Jianxian He, Jingao Xu, Kewei Song, Ze Zhang, Chen Gao, Junbo Jiang, Runhuai Yang, Kayo Hirose, Shinjiro Umezu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The future exchange rate regime

PSL Quarterly Review, 2014
When the Committee of Twenty decided to rename the exchange-rate regime rather than reform it, some two weeks after the system had collapsed, it immediately became clear that the ambitious attempt to write a new monetary constitution for the world had ...
J. WILLIAMSON
doaj   +1 more source