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The Evolution of Aerosol Jet Printing, A Review: Enhancing Material Versatility and Improvements for Next‐Generation Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) has emerged as a versatile additive manufacturing technique for high‐resolution, conformal, and multi‐material printing. This review highlights advances in printable materials, substrate compatibility, post‐processing, characterization, and process innovations, while critically discussing current challenges and future ...
Chandrachur Chatterjee, Rocco Lupoi, Michael J. Gibbons   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realizing an intelligent agricultural robot: An analysis of the ease of tomato harvesting

Smart Agricultural Technology
Labor shortages and the need for labor-saving solutions in agriculture have driven the development of autonomous harvesting robots. However, challenges such as unreliable harvest performance and limited reproducibility hinder their practical deployment ...
Takuya Fujinaga
doaj   +1 more source

Elimination of Necking and Aspect Ratio Dependence in Uniaxial Actuators by Continuous Fiber Reinforcement

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel carbon fiber reinforcement for dielectric elastomer actuators enhances actuation force while decoupling electromechanical performance from the actuator's aspect ratio. Unlike conventional fiber reinforcements, it enables a uniform planar stretch state along the entire actuator.
Markus Koenigsdorff, Stefania Konstantinidi, Anett Endesfelder, Petr Osipov, Johannes Mersch, E.‐F. Markus Vorrath, Martina Zimmermann, Yves Perriard, Gerald Gerlach   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nighttime Harvesting of OrBot (Orchard RoBot)

AgriEngineering
The Robotics Vision Lab of Northwest Nazarene University has developed the Orchard Robot (OrBot), which was designed for harvesting fruits. OrBot is composed of a machine vision system to locate fruits on the tree, a robotic manipulator to approach the target fruit, and a gripper to remove the target fruit. Field trials conducted at commercial orchards
Jakob Waltman, Ethan Buchanan, Duke M Bulanon   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Molecular Appendix Adjusted Architectural Propagations of Red‐Light Controlled Macroscopic Photoactuating Performances

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Amphiphilic chloroazobenzenes, bearing different amino acids as end groups alanine, phenylalanine, and valine, exhibit excellent photoisomerizations. Varying structures of three amino acid groups participate in supramolecular formations and therefore photoinduced morphological transformations via adjusting intermolecular interactions. These interaction
Shuangshuang Meng, Ming‐Hin Chau, Takashi Kajitani, Franco King‐Chi Leung   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Robotic Grape Inspection and Selective Harvesting in Vineyards: A Multisensory Robotic System With Advanced Cognitive Capabilities

Driven by the increasing food demand and the need for higher-quality  cultivation, precision agriculture grows steadily during the last  decade. It involves the application of mobile robots and intelligent  robotic technologies in various agricultural ...
Jaime Pulido Fentanes (17575893), Dimitrios Tzovaras (14012161), Dimitrios Kateris (20322117), Fotios Dimeas (20322096), Michael Hutchinson (20322103), Ibrahim Hroob (17172385), Dimitrios Papageorgiou (20322093), Sami Ahmed Deiri (20322100), Ioannis Mariolis (8264163), Zoe Doulgeri (8209443), Dimitrios Giakoumis (17751963), Sotiris Stavris (20322084), Ángel Soriano (20322097), Christos Papadopoulos (670043), Dimitra Triantafyllou (20322124), Stefanos Papadam (20322123), Alexios Papadimitriou (17751960), Nikiforos Samarinas (20322114), Riccardo Polvara (17165437), Dionysis Bochtis (17154190), Sergio Molina Mellado (17163376), Marc Hanheide (17159320), Leonidas Droukas (20322090), Grzegorz Cielniak (17155543), Georgia Peleka (20322120)   +24 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, Maxwell Hammond, Niloufar Seyfi, Amirreza Fahim Golestaneh, Venanzio Cichella, Caterina Lamuta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cherry Tomato Detection for Harvesting Using Multimodal Perception and an Improved YOLOv7-Tiny Neural Network

Agronomy
Robotic fruit harvesting has great potential to revolutionize agriculture, but detecting cherry tomatoes in farming environments still faces challenges in accuracy and efficiency.
Yingqi Cai, Bo Cui, Hong Deng, Zhi Zeng, Qicong Wang, Dajiang Lu, Yukang Cui, Yibin Tian   +7 more
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