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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu, Chunlong Wang, Xiaohang Sun, Hongwei Guo, Jiayao Ma, Yan Chen   +5 more
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Hyperelastic Starch Hydrogel Configures Edible and Biodegradable All‐Components for Soft Robots

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Hyperelastic starch hydrogel is tailored via a phase separation strategy of solvent‐antisolvent co‐modulation. The mechanical performance of starch hydrogel is widely tuned with maximum strains: 194.4–361.4%; maximum tensile stresses: 34–192 kPa; and Young's moduli: 36.0–205.8 kPa. Notably, the hydrogel achieves complete soil degradation within 24 days
Siyu Yao, Haohao Hu, Mengfan Zhang, Qingqing Zhu, Donghong Liu, Shaoxing Qu, Guoyong Mao, Enbo Xu   +7 more
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Edible Pneumatic Battery for Sustained and Repeated Robot Actuation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents an edible energy source and valve system to power soft, pneumatically driven edible robots. A chemical reaction between sodium bicarbonate and citric acid generates carbon dioxide gas, and a pressure‐triggered edible valve enables self‐repetitive motion of the edible actuator.
Bokeon Kwak, Shuhang Zhang, Alexander Keller, Qiukai Qi, Jonathan Rossiter, Dario Floreano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a Novel Macro-Micro Integrated Brain Surgery Robot Based on Modular Parallel Mechanisms

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
The advancement and development of medical surgical robots have provided new technological support for brain surgery and neurosurgical procedures, improving the reliability of highly complex and precise surgeries.
Hao Zheng, Chenbo Liang, Feng Gao, Chenkun Qi, Bingze He, Renqiang Liu, Longhai Chen   +6 more
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Design and Analysis of a Portable Robot for Venous Blood Sampling

Machines
Venous blood sampling is a common procedure in medical diagnosis and treatment. However, the stationary manual blood sampling method in current use not only requires human resources but also is inconvenient for elderly persons and patients with limited ...
Haoran Xue, Hasiaoqier Han, Gang Man, Zeran Feng, Peng Yu, Zhenbang Xu   +5 more
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Robotic Materials With Bioinspired Microstructures for High Sensitivity and Fast Actuation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In the review paper, design rationale and approaches for bioinspired sensors and actuators in robotics applications are presented. These bioinspired microstructure strategies implemented in both can improve the performance in several ways. Also, recent ideas and innovations that embed robotic materials with logic and computation with it are part of the
Sakshi Sakshi, Rohit Pratyush Behera, Hongyu Zhou, Yifan Wang, Hortense Le Ferrand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a Bionic Self-Insulating Mechanical Arm for Concealed Space Inspection in the Live Power Cable Tunnels

Applied Sciences
Adopting mobile robots for high voltage (HV) live-line operations can mitigate personnel casualties and enhance operational efficiency. However, conventional mechanical arms cannot inspect concealed spaces in the power cable tunnel because their joint ...
Jingying Cao, Jie Chen, Xiao Tan, Jiahong He   +3 more
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Magnetically Responsive Piezoelectric Nanocapacitors Enhance Neural Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury via Targeted Spinal Magnetic Stimulation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel “in vivo–in vitro” therapeutic strategy for spinal cord injury by leveraging magnetically responsive piezoelectric nanomaterials. These nanomaterials enable targeted delivery of localized electrical stimulation at the injury site through noninvasive external magnetic actuation, thereby promoting axonal regeneration and ...
Zhihang Xiao, Tingting Li, Lechi Zhang, Chunya Xia, Zelin Su, Xuyan Ren, Yingjie Fan, Zerui Wu, Yaobo Liu, Min Su   +9 more
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Thermo‐Responsive Self‐Recoverable Porous Sensors with Writable Electrodes: Advancing Wearable Motion Detection

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A self‐recoverable flexible porous sensor with diverse designability of electrodes is developed through writable vapor phase polymerization using shape memory polymers (SMPs) as the fundamental materials. The sensors enable long‐term comprehensive human motion detection.
Ying Gao, Xingyi Dai, Yuanyuan Zhang, Guohao Fang, Gui Li, Yu Zheng, Long‐Biao Huang, Biqin Dong   +7 more
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Dead Matter, Living Machines: Repurposing Crustaceans' Abdomen Exoskeleton for Bio‐Hybrid Robots

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Crustacean exoskeletons, repurposed from food waste, are engineered into sustainable bending actuators combining biotic structure with synthetic control. The augmented exoskeletons achieve rapid and robust motion with lightweight body and can be used as part of robotic manipulators, grippers and swimmers.
Sareum Kim, Kieran Gilday, Josie Hughes
wiley   +1 more source