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Reprogrammable Magnetic Soft Robots Based on Low Melting Alloys

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023
Magnetic soft robots featuring untethered actuation and high mechanical compliance have promising applications ranging from bionics to biomedicine.
Gangsheng Chen, Biao Ma, Jin Zhang, Yi Chen, Hong Liu   +4 more
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Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presented an electrocapillary‐enhanced magnetohydrodynamic pumping strategy that harnesses the Lorentz force and interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal droplets to achieve amplified fluidic power. The system enabled low‐voltage, self‐oscillating fluidic transduction with enhanced pressure and flow generation, supporting compact ...
Saba Firouznia, Ciqun Xu, Michael D. Dickey, Jonathan Rossiter   +3 more
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Error Modeling based on Screw Theory and Sensibility Analysis of Reconfigurable Robot

Jixie chuandong, 2017
For the static error about dimensions error and geometric parameters error of reconfigurable robot caused by the design and manufacture of modules and its configuration change,the static geometric parameters error of reconfigurable robot is treated as ...
Ge Weimin, Zhao Wen, Wang Xiaofeng, Liu Jun, Liu Zengchang   +4 more
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Tradeoff Between Area Coverage and Energy Usage of a Self-Reconfigurable Floor Cleaning Robot Based on User Preference

IEEE Access, 2020
Floor cleaning robots have been developed to cope with the issues arisen with conventional cleaning methods that involve extensive human labor. hTetro is a self-reconfigurable floor cleaning robot that has been introduced to improve area coverage ...
M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, Mohan Rajesh Elara   +2 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture [PDF]

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2010
Imagine a world in which our furniture moves around like legged robots, interacts with us, and changes shape and function during the day according to our needs. This is the long term vision we have in the Roombots project. To work towards this dream, we are developing modular robotic modules that have rotational degrees of freedom for locomotion as ...
Alexander Spröwitz, Soha Pouya, Stéphane Bonardi, Jesse van den Kieboom, Rico Möckel, Aude Billard, Pierre Dillenbourg, Auke Jan Ijspeert   +7 more
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Reconfiguration for the Maximum Dynamic Wrench Capability of a Parallel Robot

Applied Sciences, 2016
In this paper, a Stewart-platform robot with sliding lockable base joints is proposed for reconfiguration, and it addresses the determination of the optimal configuration for the prescribed motion with maximum allowable dynamic wrench capability subject ...
Chih-Jer Lin, Chun-Ta Chen
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Research on self-reconfiguration strategy of modular spherical robot

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2022
Self-reconfigurable robot is a complex system composed of multiple modular robots. Aiming at high efficiency and low energy consumption of self-reconfigurable robot configuration transformation, a self-reconfiguration strategy based on module mapping of ...
Hanxu Sun, Mingzhe Li, Jingzhou Song, Yun Wang   +3 more
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Double‐Interpenetrating Composite Bioink for Multi‐Component 3D Bioprinting and Biofabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Marine‐polysaccharides‐derived double interpenetrating network hydrogel‐based bioink, combining the attributes of physical and ionic crosslinking, enables room‐temperature bioprinting of mechanically defined structures that can be handled and are cytocompatible.
Fabian Tribukait‐Riemenschneider, V. Prasad Shastri   +1 more
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Shaping Matter with Acoustic Waves: From Particles to Functional Structures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Acoustic‐directed assembly is reviewed as a materials‐oriented strategy for organizing particles, polymers, metals, and biological systems into functional structures. The review distinguishes reversible manipulation from permanent structure formation through medium fixation, particle fixation, and in situ material generation, highlighting routes toward
Avraham Kenigsberg, Shelly Zlotnikov, Maya Fiorentino, Yuval Elias, Ornit Nagler‐Avramovitz, Hagay Shpaisman   +5 more
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