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Design and Characterization of a Dual‐Mode Soft Robotic Flapping Propeller With Pneumatic Stiffness Modulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A novel soft robotic propeller overcomes traditional efficiency‐flexibility tradeoffs via a hybrid pneumatic‐cable actuation strategy. This architecture enables active stiffness modulation with dual‐mode locomotion: tunable biomimetic swimming and earthworm‐inspired wriggling for confined spaces.
Jiazi Geng, Hua Shao, Yiyang Li, Lin Liang, Jinfeng Yang, Xianhong He, Fengran Xie   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Improved Biomimetic Beaver Behavior Optimizer for Inverse Kinematics of Rehabilitation Robotic Arms. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Fan S, Deng Y, Li Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconfigurable Design and Optimization‐Based Control of an Integrated Leg‐Arm Robot for Space Applications With an Underactuated Body

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A quadrupedal integrated leg‐arm robot with an underactuated reconfigurable body is developed. By using a Sarrus mechanism as the body, the robot enables reconfiguration through its supporting limbs, achieving mode switching without additional actuators.
Xinghan Zhuang, Kun Xu, Shutao Wu, Haoyuan Liu, Bochao Song, Jiawei Chen, Peijin Zi, Tao Zhang, Xilun Ding   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Passive wheels on legged robots: a survey. [PDF]

Front Robot AI
Petri JF, Lacey G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Motion and Morphology Planning for Autonomous Manipulation in Clutter With a Shape‐Shifting, Variable‐Stiffness Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A hybrid mobile robot with a modular Variable‐Stiffness Bridge transitions between a rigid locomotion platform and a flexible, shape‐conforming body. By enclosing objects within its deformable structure rather than relying on dedicated end effectors, the robot achieves orientation‐regulated planar transport, with conformal contact quality shown to ...
Luiza Labazanova, Liuming Qiu, Jose Guadalupe Romero, Li Cheng, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, David Navarro‐Alarcon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distal mechanisms in robotic surgical instruments: a structured review of surgical access, miniaturisation constraints and procedure-specific performance trade-offs. [PDF]

J Robot Surg
Gutiérrez CED, Velázquez VEQ, Fernández R.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contact Force Estimation in Human–Robot Collaboration: A Case Study on Heavyweight Robotic Manipulators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
The method presented in this paper provides a practical sensorless solution for estimating both contact force and contact location using only standard joint encoders and an available robot dynamic model. By reformulating the contact estimation problem using a single scalar equivalent contact parameter, the approach enables fast and robust computation ...
Thanh‐Quan Ta, Shyh‐Leh Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Experimental Verification of a Gibbon-Inspired Tree-Climbing Robot for Forestry Environments. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Lu X, An J, Ga L, Bai X, Xu D, Li W.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Compact Multijoint Finger Motion Sensing Module for Flexible Exoskeleton Applications

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Addressing the motion estimation gap in underactuated wearable electronics, a highly integrated sensor alongside a customized readout circuit is proposed. Featuring a screen‐printed layout and optimized horseshoe geometry, this design establishes an optimal feedback mechanism for flexible hand exoskeletons while eliminating wiring clutter.
Huawei Zheng, Frédéric Lamarque, Hani Al Hajjar, Andreas Dietzel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PhenoRob-P: An autonomous robotic system for high-throughput phenotyping of potted plants. [PDF]

Plant Phenomics
Shao Y, He Y, Fang Y, Li Z, Zhai R, Yang W, Song P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source