Unsteady Aerodynamics in Bio-Inspired Flapping Wings for Low-Density Environments. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Prisăcariu EG +8 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 +6 more
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Insights into Finishing Defects in Abrasive Flow Machining of Turbine Blade Film Cooling Holes. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel)Huang J, Zhong H, Wang Z, Xu T, Wang L.
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Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
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Passive Morphing in Insect Wings: From Biological Mechanisms to Aerospace Structures. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Roșu RA, Dumitrescu O, Prisăcariu EG.
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Magnetically Actuated Microrobot for Drug Delivery: Current Progress and Challenges
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Magnetically actuated microrobots are reshaping targeted drug delivery through wireless propulsion, programmable materials, and localized therapeutic release. This review examines how fabrication, body material selection, structural architecture, loading mechanisms, and imaging‐guided control converge to enable microrobotic therapies while identifying ...
Yang Yang, David J. Cappelleri
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Unsteady Aerodynamics of a Pitching Airfoil with Trailing-Edge Flap in a Four-Bladed Rotor Configuration. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Feraru DM, Măriuța D, Grigorie TL.
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A balanced multimodal food‐waste dataset and a novel Split Spatial‐Spectral Attention fusion framework are presented for robotic contaminant detection. Separate processing of RGB, thermal, and multispectral inputs preserves subtle material signatures before feature integration, reducing modality interference and improving classification and ...
Matthew Vestal +5 more
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Bridging Biology and Engineering: Unsteady Aerodynamics and Biomimetic Design of Micro Air Vehicles. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Prisăcariu EG, Dumitrescu O.
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Helix Alignment, Chevrons, and Edge Dislocations in Twist‐Bend Ferroelectric Nematics
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The recently discovered twist‐bend ferroelectric nematic (NTBF) is the new member of the multiferroic family, representing a fluid with an oblique helicoidal (heliconical) periodic structure of spontaneous electric polarization. The work presents a thorough exploration of the material properties of this phase, how the periodic modulation of ...
Bijaya Basnet +8 more
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