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

Advanced 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, Eran Beeri Bamani, Joao Buzzatto, Bryan Busby, Lucas Ferrari Gerez   +4 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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Orchard Vision Navigation Line Extraction Based on YOLOv8-Trunk Detection

IEEE Access
Visual navigation is the pivotal technology for enabling autonomous operations of orchard robots. To obtain orchard navigation lines, the robot needs to quickly identify the positions of tree trunks.
Ziang Cao, Changzhi Gong, Junjie Meng, Lu Liu, Yuan Rao, Wenhui Hou   +5 more
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Technical Feasibility Study of Autonomous Field Robot‐Based on‐the‐go Assessment of Soil Nutrients Using Ion‐Sensitive Field‐Effect Transistors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel, Stefan Hinck, Edgar Peiter, Arno Ruckelshausen   +3 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced 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, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
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Design and experimental study of tillage depth control system for electric rotary tiller based on LADRC

Scientific Reports
This paper proposes an adaptive real-time tillage depth control system for electric rotary tillers, based on Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control (LADRC), to improve tillage depth accuracy in tea garden intercropping with soybeans.
Wei Tao, Bin Chen, Xinkun Yang, Bo Guo, Wanwan Xu, Shaoye Ke, Shenghong Huang   +6 more
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Design and processing test of eel automatic filleting machine

Shipin yu jixie
Objective: A special cutting mechanism for slicing elongated fish with smooth surface was designed. Methods: Taking the slimy eel as the research object, the mechanism of clamping and cutting operation was analyzed.
LIU Mingyong, OUYANG Zhouhuan, HAN Xinguang, XIANG Xue, ZHU Lin   +4 more
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
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Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
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Comparison of meshing characteristics and dynamic behavior of hypoid gear drive under different load conditions

Advances in Mechanical Engineering
The study of loaded meshing characteristics and dynamic behavior is significant for evaluating the stability of hypoid gear under actual working conditions. Loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) of a hypoid gear drive under different loads is carried out.
Xiaole Wang, Yang Yang, Jianwei Lu, Xianguang Gu, Shaowu Qiu, Jianxue Liu, Zhining Zhang, Baobao Dai   +7 more
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