Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen +5 more
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Design of robot finger based on flexible tactile sensor
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2019 In this article, a flexible tactile sensor that made of conductive silicone rubber for dexterous robot hand is designed. The tactile sensor is made up of four microsensors.
Zhijie Tang +3 more
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A Flexible Dual‐Mode Capacitive Sensor for Highly Sensitive Touchless and Tactile Sensing in Human‐Machine Interactions [PDF]
, 2023 Weijie Liu +3 more
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Remorphable Architectures: Reprogramming Global Bistability through Locally Bistable Metamaterials
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Local bistable reconfiguration in mechanical metamaterials is leveraged in globally bistable architectures to enable in situ reprogrammable transition pathways through state flip of individual building blocks. The local‐to‐global correspondence of instabilities empowers soft robotic systems with on‐demand morphing traits, as well as aerospace ...
Lei Wu +3 more
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Physical Intelligence in Small‐Scale Robots and Machines
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.“Physical intelligence” (PI) empowers biological organisms and artificial machines, especially at the small scales, to perceive, adapt, and even reshape their complex, dynamic, and unstructured operation environments. This review summarizes recent milestones and future directions of PI in small‐scale robots and machines.
Huyue Chen, Metin Sitti
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Magneto-inductive skin sensor for robot collision avoidance: A new development [PDF]
Safety is a primary concern for robots operating in space. The tri-mode sensor addresses that concern by employing a collision avoidance/management skin around the robot arms.
Chauhan, D. S., Dehoff, Paul H.
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Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Neuromorphic Devices and Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Organic electrochemical transistors are emerging as promising platforms for neuromorphic devices that emulate neuronal and synaptic activities and can seamlessly integrate with biological systems. This review focuses on resultant organic artificial neurons, synapses, and integrated devices, with an emphasis on their ability to perform neuromorphic ...
Kexin Xiang +4 more
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A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery
, 2017 As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like ...
Cheng Zhang +7 more
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Recent Progress on Three-dimensional Printing Processes to Fabricate Flexible Tactile Sensors [PDF]
, 2020 Wang Yancheng +3 more
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