Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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A Review of Airtanker Drop Characteristics, Effectiveness, and Future Research Directions
FireAerial forest firefighting is a critical technology for wildfire suppression. Recent studies have examined suppression agent drop dynamics, deposition patterns, and optimization strategies. This review synthesizes advances from three perspectives: (i) in-
Ji Wu +4 more
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Flight Safety and the Key Role of Flight Attendants
, 2021 This is a presentation from the International Aircraft Cabin Air Conference 2021 (Online, 15-18 March 2021)
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds +2 more
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Advanced Architecture of On-Board Multiplex Information Exchange System to Increase Flight Safety. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2022 Dashkiiev V, Povstenko Y.
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki +2 more
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Synthesis, characterization and surface properties of an organosilicon surfactant
Frontiers in ChemistryIn order to explore alternative substances for traditional fluorocarbon surfactants while maintaining high surface activity, this study successfully designed and synthesized an organosilicon surfactant (SiCH) containing a hydroxyl quaternary ammonium ...
Xinhua Zhu +9 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Cyberattack on Flight Safety: Detection and Mitigation Using LoRa. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 Ronen R, Ben-Moshe B.
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Task‐Oriented Path Planning Towards Autonomous Sensor Network Deployment in Rainforest Canopies
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.An informative path planner for drone‐based deployment of wireless sensor networks in rainforest canopies is presented, addressing key challenges in large‐scale biodiversity monitoring. By integrating canopy surface detection with connectivity‐aware sampling under strict flight constraints, the approach enables efficient and reliable aerial sensor ...
Rita Santos Raminhos, Salua Hamaza
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