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Hydrogel‐Based Functional Materials: Classifications, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Conductive hydrogels have emerged as promising materials for smart wearable devices due to their outstanding flexibility, multifunctionality, and biocompatibility. This review systematically summarizes recent progress in their design strategies, focusing on monomer systems and conductive components, and highlights key multifunctional properties such as
Zeyu Zhang, Zao Cheng, Patrizio Raffa
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Centimeter‐Scale Magneto‐Reconfigurable Parallel Robots: A Grassmann Line Geometry Synthesis Framework for Multitask Adaptation Using Magneto‐Connected Part Library

Advanced Intelligent Systems
The development of centimeter‐scale reconfigurable parallel robots is critical for applications requiring precise, adaptive, and space‐constrained operations across bench‐top automation and minimally invasive systems. However, existing platforms struggle
Yunong Li, Bin Zhu, Wenchao Yue, Zhiwei Fang, Xiao Xiao, Hongliang Ren   +5 more
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Direct Laser Writing of Magnetic Micro Actuators With a Stimulus‐Responsive Compliant Hinge

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study presents a versatile modular design strategy for adaptive 3D microactuators. Using two‐photon‐induced C,H insertion reactions within solid polymer layers, chemically distinct hinge and stimulus responsive materials are patterned in one step. The hinge's properties enable tunable motion, mechanical control, and reconfigurable actuation across
Eleonora Galli, Nicolas Geid, Yizheng Liu, Friederike Strahl, Jürgen Rühe   +4 more
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An auxetic meta-structure enabled soft locomotive robot

npj Robotics
This paper introduces the ADAMBOT, a novel soft locomotive robot that leverages the active deformability of auxetic meta-structures, a feature largely unexplored in robotics.
Peng Jiang, Yang Deng, Xiaoyi Wang, Qian Xu, Rui Jiao, Hongyu Yu   +5 more
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Accelerating Luminescence in Nanostructures: Exploring the Physical Limits and Impact of Ultrafast Emission in Nanoscale Materials

Advanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in accelerating luminescence in nanostructures through cooperative emission, resonator coupling, and nonlocal light–matter interactions. By unifying concepts such as excitonic superradiance, superfluorescence, and the plasmonic Purcell effect, it reveals physical limits of ultrafast emission and their potential ...
Masaaki Ashida, Koichi Okamoto, Takuya Matsuda, Hajime Ishihara   +3 more
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Recent Advances in Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Systems Enabled by Phase‐Change Materials

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Phase‐change materials (PCMs), such as shape memory alloys, hydrogels, shape memory polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, and low‐melting‐point alloys, are driving advancements in stiffness‐tunable robotic systems across a wide range of applications. This review highlights recent progress in PCM‐enabled robotics, focusing on their underlying mechanisms,
Sukrit Gaira, Liao Wu, Ming Li, Priyank Kumar, Xiaopeng Li, Shi‐Yang Tang   +5 more
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Modulus‐Switchable Miniature Robots for Biomedical Applications: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Materials, robot designs, proof‐of‐concept functions, and biomedical applications of modulus‐switchable miniature robots. Miniature soft robots have shown great potential in biomedical applications due to their excellent controllability and suitable mechanical properties in biological environments.
Chunyun Wei, Yibin Wang, Jiangfan Yu
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Design and showcase of a stairs-based testbed for the benchmark of exoskeleton devices: The STEPbySTEP project

Wearable Technologies
Wearable exoskeletons hold the potential to provide valuable physical assistance across a range of tasks, with applications steadily expanding across different scenarios.
Marco Caimmi, Nicole Maugliani, Matteo Malosio, Francesco Airoldi, Tito Dinon, Diego Borro, Martxel Eizaguirre, Iñaki Díaz, Sergio Ausejo, Gabriele Puzzo, Federico Fraboni, Luca Pietrantoni, Marco Maccarini, Asad Ali Shahid, Loris Roveda   +14 more
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Reconfigurability Function Deployment in Software Development [PDF]

In the forthcoming highly dynamic and complex business environment high-speed and cost-effective development of software applications for targeting a precise, unique and momentary set of requirements (no more-no less) associated to a customized business ...
Adrian CHIOREANU, Bogdan MOCAN, Emilia BRAD, Mircea FULEA, Stelian BRAD   +4 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
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