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Modular, Textile‐Based Soft Robotic Grippers for Agricultural Produce Handling

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article introduces textile‐based pneumatic grippers that transform simple textiles into robust bending actuators. Detailed experiments uncover how cut geometry and fabric selection shape performance. Successful handling of fragile agricultural items showcases the potential of textile robotics for safe, scalable automation in food processing and ...
Zeyu Hou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences
Mid-last century, controversy existed around the question whether non-human great apes have culture. To a large degree, this is no longer controversial – apes have their own cultures.
Ammie K. Kalan, Claudio Tennie
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced 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

Task‐Oriented Path Planning Towards Autonomous Sensor Network Deployment in Rainforest Canopies

open access: yesAdvanced 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
wiley   +1 more source

Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Best Practice Guidelines for Health Monitoring and Disease Control in Great Ape Populations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
First paragraph: Due to their phylogenetic relatedness, great apes and humans share susceptibility to many infectious diseases, and the potential for new diseases to be transmitted to wild great apes is of particular concern (Calvignac-Spencer et al ...
Gillespie, Thomas R   +6 more
core  

Atomic Defects in Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Sustainable Energy Storage and the Intelligent Trends in Data Analytics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the atomic defects in TMDs for their applications in sustainable energy storage devices, along with the latest progress in ML methodologies for high‐throughput TEM data analysis, offering insights on how ML‐empowered microscopy facilitates bridging structure–property correlation and inspires knowledge for precise ...
Zheng Luo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The great ape project

open access: yes, 2008
Cristicism of the legal proposal to recognize personhood to great ...
BAUZON, STEPHANE
core   +1 more source

Great ape genomics : diversity and evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Els grans simis són els nostres parents evolutius més propers i com a tals són la millor eina per entendre els nostres orígens més recents. Mitjançant la genòmica comparativa ara podem estudiar en profunditat aquesta qüestió, però la manca de genomes de ...
Prado Martínez, Javier   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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