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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Is Ambient Intelligence a truly Human-Centric Paradigm in Industry? Current Research and Application Scenario [PDF]

The use of pervasive networked devices is nowadays a reality in the service sector. It impacts almost all aspects of our daily lives, although most times we are not aware of its influence.
José Barata, Luís Ribeiro, Pedro Barreira   +2 more
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

Universal Gripper for Industrial Manipulation With Enhanced Rigid Mechanics and Self‐Adaptable Fingers

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid, Nirmal Kumar Ravikumar, Mattia Frascio, Sumanth Nagalakunta, Alessandro Seitone, Benoît Lévesque, Alessandro Zanella, Matteo Zoppi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous Locomotion Mode Transition Simulation of a Track-legged Quadruped Robot Step Negotiation

, 2019
Multi-modal locomotion (e.g. terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic) is gaining increasing interest in robotics research as it improves the robots environmental adaptability, locomotion versatility, and operational flexibility.
Davies, K. A., Ramirez-Serrano, A., Wang, J.   +2 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
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Recent Advances and Perspectives on Field‐Effect Transistors for Artificial Visual Neuromorphic Systems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review presents a comprehensive overview of FET‐based visual neuromorphic systems, covering their semiconductor materials, core device architectures, and operating mechanisms. It further reviews their implementation in emulating biological visual functions, addresses current technological challenges, and outlines future development directions. The
Liu Yaqian, Lang Menghua, Xu Yihang, Zhang Manyu, Lei Chunkang, Lu Xiaozhou, Dou Yi, Wang Lingli, Jiang Liying, Hu Yuanyuan, Chen Huipeng, Jiang Lang   +11 more
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Enabling robustness to failure with modular field robots

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Actuator failure on a remotely deployed robot results in decreased efficiency or even renders it inoperable. Robustness to these failures will become critical as robots are required to be more independent and operate out of the range of repair.
Troy Cordie, Troy Cordie, Jonathan Roberts, Matthew Dunbabin, Ross Dungavell, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay   +5 more
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Applications of Biological Cell Models in Robotics

, 2017
In this paper I present some of the most representative biological models applied to robotics. In particular, this work represents a survey of some models inspired, or making use of concepts, by gene regulatory networks (GRNs): these networks describe ...
Braccini, Michele
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