Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim +4 more
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Self-reconfigurable robotic fish swarms: Collective achievement of diverse locomotion and challenging aquatic tasks. [PDF]
Si B, Chang L, Li S, Ding Z, Xie G.
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Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu +4 more
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Reprogrammable Phase-Transition Composites for Adaptive Dynamic Shape Morphing. [PDF]
Zhong Y +8 more
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Design‐for‐Benchmarking in Soft Robotics: Navigating Component‐System Dichotomy
Soft robotics faces a profound evaluation challenge: the Component‐System Dichotomy, where isolated component tests fail to predict integrated performance. This article presents a systematic survey of critical reporting gaps across actuation, sensing, and control.
Matteo Lo Preti +4 more
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Human activity-aware coverage path planning for robot-based mosquito control. [PDF]
Wan AYS +3 more
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SiOx‐Based Probabilistic Bits Enabling Invertible Logic Gate for Cryptographic Applications
To enable lightweight hardware encryption and decryption, a Ti/SiOx/Ti threshold switching device is engineered to generate controllable stochastic oscillations. By tuning the input voltage, the device produces a programmable spike probability governed by intrinsic switching dynamics, enabling probabilistic bits that construct an invertible ...
Jihyun Kim, Hyeonsik Choi, Jiyong Woo
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Dedicated and Reconfigurable Artificial Neurons and Synapses based on Two-Dimensional Materials for Efficient Neuromorphic Application. [PDF]
Chen D +12 more
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Speckle Skin‐Based Multimodal Tactile Perception for Fine Robotic Manipulation
SpeckleTac, a miniature vision‐based tactile sensor, utilizes a speckle‐pattern skin and optical flow‐based scalable virtual marker tracking. Combined with advanced algorithms, it achieves high‐resolution 3D surface reconstruction, precise contact perception, and stable grasping capabilities.
Jiayuan Zhang +6 more
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A Soft Reconfigurable Inverted Climbing Robot Based on Magneto-Elastica-Reinforced Elastomer. [PDF]
Hu F, Zhao B, Jiang W.
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