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Liquid Metal Sensors for Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review thoroughly reviews liquid metal sensors in soft robots. Their unique material properties like high conductivity and good biocompatibility are analyzed. Working principles are classified, and applications in environmental perception, motion detection, and human—robot interaction are introduced.
Qi Zhang +7 more
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Smart materials application on high performance sailing yachts for energy harvesting [PDF]
, 2013 Piezoelectric patches are bounded on a keel bulb in order to harvest vibration energy by converting electrical output. Unsteady computational fluid dynamics method is also used to find the structural boundary condition such as the hydrodynamic pressure ...
Khorasanchi, Mahdi +2 more
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Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robotic Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores the transformative role of multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) in the development of soft robotic systems. It presents current techniques, materials, and design strategies that enable functionally graded and adaptive structures.
Ritik Raj +2 more
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Using piezoelectric technology to harvest energy from pavement: A review
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)A key point in building a contemporary energy system is the search for sustainable and green energy. Many green energy sources exist in the road or pavement domain, such as solar, thermal, wind, and mechanical energy, etc.
Keliang Mou +6 more
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett +5 more
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Surface Effects on the Piezoelectricity of ZnO Nanowires
, 2012 We utilize classical molecular dynamics to study surface effects on the piezoelectric properties of ZnO nanowires as calculated under uniaxial loading.
Dai, Shuangxing, Park, Harold S.
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Muscle cell‐based biohybrid robot using nanomaterials for function enhancement and neural function for biomedical applications. Biohybrid robotics, an emerging field combining biological tissues with artificial systems, has made significant progress in developing various biohybrid constructs, including muscle‐cell‐driven biorobots and microbots.
Minkyu Shin +4 more
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Top‐Down Fabricated Wood‐Derived Pressure and Strain Sensors: A Review
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on wood‐derived pressure/strain sensors fabricated via top‐down strategies. It analyzes wood's structural composition, examines processing techniques, discusses sensor types and sensing mechanisms, and reviews existing research. The article concludes with future directions for enhancing performance and scalability.
Yi Ren +8 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 +4 more
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A Self-Powered DSSH Circuit with MOSFET Threshold Voltage Management for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2023 Wu L, Wang X, Xie M.
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