Monitoring and Early Warning of the Cage-Rearing Broiler Farming Environment Based on an Inspection Robot. [PDF]
Luo S +8 more
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Obstacle distance measurement based on binocular vision for high-voltage transmission lines using a cable inspection robot. [PDF]
Huang L +6 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
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 +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Attention-Enhanced Semantic Segmentation for Substation Inspection Robot Navigation. [PDF]
Cai C +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
Editorial: Pipeline inspection robots
Mihaylova, L. +4 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Distribution station inspection robot with modular manipulator. [PDF]
Yu Q, Zhang Q, Sun G, Qin R.
europepmc +1 more source
Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Development of an Orchard Inspection Robot: A ROS-Based LiDAR-SLAM System with Hybrid A*-DWA Navigation. [PDF]
Qu J, Gu Y, Qiu Z, Guo K, Zhu Q.
europepmc +1 more source
Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation
A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu +5 more
wiley +1 more source

