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Smart Catheters for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Therapy
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Volume 15, Issue 13, 3 April 2026.This study presents a comprehensive review of smart catheters, an emerging class of medical devices that integrate embedded sensors, robotics, and communication systems, offering increased functionality and complexity to enable real‐time health monitoring, diagnostics, and treatment. Abstract This review explores smart catheters as an emerging class of
Azra Yaprak Tarman +12 more
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A Review on Biodegradable Materials of Sustainable Soft Robotics and Electronics
Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 15, 13 March 2026.Biodegradable materials are gaining increasing attention in soft robotics and electronics due to their environmental friendliness, showing great potential for sustainability. In this review, the classification of biodegradable materials, their applications in the field of soft robotics and electronics, as well as the challenges and future prospects ...
Yizhu Xie +8 more
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Actuators, 2018 The demand of miniaturized, accurate and robust micro-tools for minimally invasive surgery or in general for micro-manipulation, has grown tremendously in recent years. To meet this need, a new-concept comb-driven microgripper was designed and fabricated.
Cristina Potrich +6 more
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Bifurcation characteristics and safe basin of MSMA microgripper subjected to stochastic excitation
AIP Advances, 2015 A kind of magnetic shape memory alloy (MSMA) microgripper is proposed in this paper, and its nonlinear dynamic characteristics are studied when the stochastic perturbation is considered.
Z. W. Zhu, X. M. Li, J. Xu
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Research on three-stage amplified compliant mechanism-based piezo-driven microgripper
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2020 The microgripper based on the principle of lever amplification is easy to realize; however, the theoretical amplification factor is limited by the space size and the structure is not compact enough.
Xiaodong Chen +4 more
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Development of Flexible Microgripper.
Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 1995 新しい駆動方式を採用したマイクログリッパ (FMG) について解説した.本稿によりFMGの駆動特性, 応用の可能性についてご理解頂けたら幸いである.また今後は, FMGの高機能化や, 新たな操作要素の研究開発を進める予定である.
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A Modified U-Shaped Micro-Actuator with a Compliant Mechanism Applied to a Microgripper
Actuators, 2019 In this paper, a modified U-shaped micro-actuator with a compliant mechanism is proposed. It was analyzed with a uniform and modified thin arm, as well as a similar variation in the corresponding flexure, in order to observe the impact of the compliant ...
Pedro Vargas-Chable +4 more
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Micromachines, 2018 Microgrippers are typical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that are widely used for micromanipulation and microassembly in both biological and micromanufacturing fields. This paper presents the design, modelling, fabrication and experimental testing
Marija Cauchi +4 more
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Actuators, 2018 The ongoing development of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) over the past decades has made possible the achievement of high-precision micromanipulation within the micromanufacturing, microassembly and biomedical fields. This paper presents different
Marija Cauchi +4 more
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A New Hybrid Stepper Motor, Compliant Piezoelectric Micro-Tweezer for Extended Stroke. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2023 Ivan IA +4 more
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