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Towards participatory design of social robots [PDF]

, 2019
Part 6: Human-Robot Interaction and 3D InteractionInternational audienceWith an increase in research and development of social robotics and commercial robots entering the market, there is a need for design tools that enable non-experts to design, build ...
C Spinuzzi, EBN Sanders, LZ McArthur, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, S Šabanović   +4 more
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Aerodynamic Characteristics and Pitching Adjusting Mechanism of the Flying Squirrel With Deployed Patagium

IEEE Access, 2019
The flying squirrel has a balanced amphibious ability on land and air, especially the ability to glide using their patagium, which makes it an excellent biomimetic object in the design and development of multimodal locomotion robots.
Fei Zhao, Wei Wang, Jingtao Zhang, Justyna Wyrwa, Feng Sun   +4 more
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Simulation-based analysis of micro-robots swimming at the center and near the wall of circular mini-channels [PDF]

, 2013
Swimming micro robots have great potential in biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, medical diagnosis, and destroying blood clots in arteries.
A Ghosh, AP Berke, BJ Nelson, BU Felderhof, C Brennen, D Giacché, DF Katz, E Lauga, E Lauga, EM Purcell, Fatma Zeynep Temel, H Shum, HC Berg, J Gray, J Happel, JJ Higdon, JP Armitage, L Zhang, R Dreyfus, S Martel, Serhat Yesilyurt, SG Taylor, SJ Lighthill, T Atsumi, T Honda, UK Cheang   +25 more
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Ionic shape-morphing microrobotic end-effectors for environmentally adaptive targeting, releasing, and sampling

Nature Communications, 2021
Making environmentally responsive materials often requires the use of multi-material devices. Here, the authors report on the use of electric field patterning of alginate hydrogels to make environmentally responsive actuators and demonstrate a range of ...
Zhiqiang Zheng, Huaping Wang, Lixin Dong, Qing Shi, Jianing Li, Tao Sun, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda   +7 more
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Design and Demonstration of a Flying-Squirrel-Inspired Jumping Robot with Two Modes

Applied Sciences, 2021
The jumping–gliding robot is a kind of locomotion platform with the capabilities to jump on the ground and glide through the air. The jumping of this robot has to juggle the requirements of initial velocity and posture for entry to gliding and ...
Fei Zhao, Wei Wang, Justyna Wyrwa, Jingtao Zhang, Wenxin Du, Pengyu Zhong   +5 more
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Vision-Based Automated Control of Magnetic Microrobots

Micromachines, 2022
Magnetic microrobots are vital tools for targeted therapy, drug delivery, and micromanipulation on cells in the biomedical field. In this paper, we report an automated control and path planning method of magnetic microrobots based on computer vision ...
Xiaoqing Tang, Yuke Li, Xiaoming Liu, Dan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Tatsuo Arai   +5 more
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Magnetic Microrobots Fabricated by Photopolymerization and Assembly

Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023
Magnetic soft microrobots have great potential to access narrow spaces and conduct multiple tasks in the biomedical field. Until now, drug delivery, microsurgery, disease diagnosis, and dredging the blocked blood vessel have been realized by magnetic ...
Xiyue Liang, Yue Zhao, Dan Liu, Yan Deng, Tatsuo Arai, Masaru Kojima, Xiaoming Liu   +6 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Systems Theory: Applied to Cooperative Robots

, 2004
This paper describes an approach to the design of a population of cooperative robots based on concepts borrowed from Systems Theory and Artificial Intelligence.
Custodio, Luis M. M., Lima, Pedro U.
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Robot life: simulation and participation in the study of evolution and social behavior. [PDF]

, 2018
This paper explores the case of using robots to simulate evolution, in particular the case of Hamilton's Law. The uses of robots raises several questions that this paper seeks to address.
AE Eiben, ANH Creager, B Bensaude-Vincent, C Kelty, Christopher M. Kelty, D Floreano, D Floreano, D Goldberg, DA Levitis, DW Smith, E Winsberg, EF Keller, EG Leigh, F Steinle, FJ Varela, H Landecker, H Landecker, H Landecker, H Landecker, J Dupré, J Krause, J Lenhard, J Riskin, JA Kurland, JA Piliavin, JC Schank, L Berthouze, L Berthouze, L Suchman, LR Franklin, M Asada, M Lungarella, M Waibel, MA Nowak, P Humphreys, P Huneman, R Pfeifer, RM Bergner, RR Kline, S Dutreuil, S Garnier, S Helmreich, S Helmreich, S Mitri, S Mitri, S Mitri, S Okasha, S Schweber, SF Gilbert, Stephen J Gould, T Grune-Yanoff, W Parker, WC Wimsatt, WD Hamilton   +53 more
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Rendezvous on a Line by Location-Aware Robots Despite the Presence of Byzantine Faults

, 2017
A set of mobile robots is placed at points of an infinite line. The robots are equipped with GPS devices and they may communicate their positions on the line to a central authority.
A Collins, A Collins, A Dessmark, E Bampas, E Huus, E Kranakis, E Kranakis, G Marco De, J Czyzowicz, J Czyzowicz, L Lamport, N Agmon, NA Lynch, O Feinerman, P Flocchini, R Cohen, R Cohen, R Klasing, R Olfati-Saber, S Alpern, S Alpern, S Souissi, T Izumi, X Défago, X Yu, Y Dieudonné, Z Bouzid   +26 more
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