Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu +7 more
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Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement
Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm +2 more
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Research and Development Progress of Laser–Arc Hybrid Welding: A Review
Laser–arc hybrid welding (LAHW) is an advanced welding technology that integrates both laser and arc heat sources within a single molten pool, achieving synergistic benefits that surpass the sum of their individual contributions. This method enhances the
Yang He +8 more
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From Artificial to Embodied and Physical Intelligence in Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing is reframed through complementary artificial, embodied, and physical intelligence, spanning computational reasoning, perception‐action coupling, and material‐level adaptation. Their integration across design, fabrication, operation, and maintenance reveals how intelligence can be co‐designed across algorithms, embodied agents, and ...
Kang Wang +9 more
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Multiscale Interfacial Engineering Enables Robust Reconstituted Wood
Conventional adhesives used in wood composites create heterogeneous interfaces that cause stress concentration under humid or aqueous conditions, thereby compromising long‐term stability. A synergistic strategy integrating interfacial reconstruction and water‐induced regeneration transforms heterogeneous interfaces into homogeneous ones with ...
Huizheng Wu +11 more
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Recent advances and future prospects of laser welding technology for polymeric materials: A review
Polymeric materials are extensively used in the production of microfluidic devices, biomedical equipment, automotive parts, and electronic components. Given the limitations of certain manufacturing methods and the complexity of these products, joining ...
Ammar Elsheikh +10 more
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Thermally Drawn Bioelectric Catheters: Enabling Proprioceptive Endovascular Navigation
This work introduces a novel bioelectric navigation system eliminates the need for harmful fluoroscopy during endovascular surgeries. A bespoke 16‐electrode catheter is fabricated using rapid thermal drawing and laser micro‐machining. Paired with a real‐time tracking algorithm fusing vascular geometry detection and distance estimation, this technology ...
Alex Ranne +8 more
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This study adopts a new surface pretreatment method, Laser Surface Remelting (LSR). This experiment aims to establish a set of laser welding process parameters suitable for aluminum alloy and glass under this specific pretreatment.
Changjun Chen +3 more
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How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
Aiswarya Rony +3 more
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The paper presents a detailed analysis of the influence of heat input during laser bead-on-plate welding of 5.0 mm thick plates of S700MC steel by modern Disk laser on the mechanism of steel penetration, shape and depth of penetration, and also on ...
Lisiecki A.
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