Hierarchical Artificial Muscle with Nonlinear Elasticity for Antagonistic and Cyclic Robotics
We construct hierarchical muscles by plying nylon fibers around a heating wire. The hierarchical muscle shows a J‐shaped passive curve, which shows benefit in antagonistic muscle pair and work accumulation mechanism. We also develop a computational, first‐principle model to understand the physics of both active actuation stroke and passive J‐curve ...
Samuel Tsai +15 more
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Nonreciprocal Negative Refraction Enabled by Photonic Time Crystals. [PDF]
Tavakol MR, Cai W.
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models for Cancer Immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy faces challenges in predicting treatment responses and understanding resistance mechanisms. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offer powerful solutions for cancer immunotherapy in patient stratification, biomarker discovery, treatment strategy optimization, and foundation model development.
Xinchao Wu +4 more
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Integral Betti signatures of brain, climate and financial networks compared to hyperbolic, Euclidean and spherical models. [PDF]
Caputi L, Pidnebesna A, Hlinka J.
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Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands
Across China, grazing exclusion reaches the national mean soil organic carbon recovery benchmark sooner in high‐MAP regions (> 500 mm), but recovery is much slower where MAP < 300 mm. Scaling this strategy to 70% of China's degraded grasslands would sequester about 1.52 Pg of soil carbon over 10 years—roughly 17% of annual global fossil‐fuel emissions.
Bin Zhang +9 more
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A novel Fibonacci sequence-based motion profile. [PDF]
Yao WS, Tseng YC, Hu JH.
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Vacuum–Laser Fabrication of Programmable Soft Actuators
A rapid and accessible fabrication strategy for inflatable soft actuators is presented, combining vacuum sealing with laser cutting of low‐cost thermoplastic pouches. The method enables precise sealing, fast fabrication, and programmable multi‐cell geometries.
Ashkan Rezanejad +5 more
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Dynamics of soliton propagation: bifurcation, chaos, and quantitative insights into the modified Camassa-Holm equation. [PDF]
Alam MN +5 more
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Necessary conditions for strong hyperbolicity of first order systems [PDF]
Waichiro Matsumoto, Hideo Yamahara
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Stable Diffusion Models Reveal a Persisting Human–AI Gap in Visual Creativity
This study examines visual creativity in humans and generative AI using the TCIA framework. Human artists outperform AI overall, yet structured human guidance substantially improves AI outputs and evaluations. Findings reveal that alignment with human creativity depends critically on contextual framing, highlighting both the promise and current ...
Silvia Rondini +8 more
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