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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
wiley   +1 more source

Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic shocks, food insufficiency and mental health: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pan Y, Fan L, Goetz S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Islands need “food self-sufficiency ability”

THE JOURNAL OF ISLAND STUDIES, 2005
openaire   +2 more sources

MicroRoboScope: A Portable and Integrated Mechatronic Platform for Magnetic and Acoustic Microrobotic Experimentation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents the MicroRoboScope, a highly integrated, compact, and portable microrobotic experimentation platform combining electromagnetic and acoustic actuation with real‐time visual feedback into a single, end‐to‐end device. The system enables closed‐loop control and tracking algorithm experimentation within an accessible and unified hardware ...
Max Sokolich, Yanda Yang, Subrahmanyam Cherukumilli, Fatma Ceren Kirmizitas, Sambeeta Das   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Usability, acceptability, and perceived relevance of the observatory of chronic health conditions of Santa Catarina: a formative evaluation. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Will Castro LSEP, Guesser JC, Gonçalves N, Machado RR, Tourinho FSV, Amadigi FR, Lino MM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency. [PDF]

Nat Food
Stehl J, Vonderschmidt A, Vollmer S, Alexander P, Jaacks LM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cellular Snowballing: Cell Adhesion and Migration Drive the Self‐Assembly of Cell‐Microgel Biohybrid Spheroids

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A new class of biohybrid spheroids is engineered through the self‐assembly of adherent cells and extracellular matrix‐mimetic hydrogel microparticles (microgels). By mimicking a snowballing effect, this approach enables scalable formation of porous, millimeter‐scale spheroids with enhanced cell viability and molecular diffusion.
Zaman Ataie, Sina Kheirabadi, Changhao Li, Aneesh Risbud, Aswathy Sebastian, Istvan Albert, Sulin Zhang, Amir Sheikhi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prospects for cereal self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
van Ittersum MK, Alimagham S, Silva JV, Adjei-Nsiah S, Baijukya FP, Bala A, Chikowo R, Grassini P, de Groot HLE, Nshizirungu A, Mahamane Soulé A, Sulser TB, Taulya G, Amor Tenorio F, Tesfaye K, Yuan S, van Loon MP.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source