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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variable Impedance Actuators: Moving the Robots of Tomorrow [PDF]

, 2012
Most of today's robots have rigid structures and actuators requiring complex software control algorithms and sophisticated sensor systems in order to behave in a compliant and safe way adapted to contact with unknown environments and humans.
Lefeber, D., Grioli, G., Haddadin, Sami, Stramigioli, S., A. Bicchi, Bicchi, Antonio, Carloni, R., Laffranchi, M., Haddadin, S., Jafari, A., Visser, L.C., Catalano, M.G., M. Catalano, Albu-Schäffer, Alin Olimpiu, Van Damme, M., F. Petit, Caldwell, D., M. Laffranchi, D. Caldwell, G. Ganesh, R. Carloni, Caldwell, D.G., Stramigioli, S.; id_orcid, Burdet, Etienne, Wolf, Sebastian, R. Van Ham, Garabini, M., B. Vanderborght, M. Grebenstein, S. Wolf, Catalano, M., Burdet, E., S. Haddadin, M. Garabini, Grebenstein, Markus, Ganesh, G., Vanderborght, B., D. Lefeber, M. Van Damme, Petit, F., Wolf, S., Van Ham, R., N. Tsagarakis, Albu-Schaeffer, A., Tsagarakis, N., Bicchi, A., E. Burdet, L. C. Visser   +47 more
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Towards animal-friendly machines

Paladyn, 2018
Semi-autonomous machines, autonomous machines and robots inhabit closed, semi-closed and open environments. There they encounter domestic animals, farm animals, working animals and/or wild animals.
Bendel Oliver
doaj   +1 more source

Genetically Programmed Shape‐Morphing of Engineered Living Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, bacterial and mammalian engineered living materials (ELMs) are presented, in which living cells direct genetically programmed and enzymatically mediated shape‐morphing. The resulting deformation and shape‐recovery can be actuated in a genetically controlled manner by an ELM incorporating out‐of‐equilibrium counteracting biochemical reactions with
Jan Becker, Yuchen Liu, Miguel Baños, Rosanne Schmachtenberg, Mahmudul Hasan, Claudia Fink‐Straube, Luai R. Khoury, Wilfried Weber   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots

, 2002
We introduce Embodied Evolution (EE) as a new methodology for evolutionary robotics (ER). EE uses a population of physical robots that autonomously reproduce with one another while situated in their task environment.
Pollack, Jordan B., Ficici, Sevan G., Watson, Richard A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Data-Driven Robot Perception in the Wild.

, 2023
Allt eftersom tekniken utvecklas ökar intresset av att underlätta för människan genom att automatisera vissa farliga eller slitsamma uppgifter. Några av de områden som har potential för att automatisera är: transporter, genom självkörande bilar; räddningsarbete i samband med katastrofer; samt inventering av skog och liknande.
openaire   +2 more sources

In‐House Manufacturing of 3D ECM Culture Chips via Vacuum Thermoforming for Enhanced Imaging Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Desktop vacuum thermoforming enables rapid, low‐cost fabrication of 96‐channel polystyrene culture chips with very thin imaging interfaces. The resulting platform supports cell lines, primary cells, and patient‐derived organoids, and enables high‐resolution confocal microscopy and single‐cell visualization, providing an accessible approach for advanced
Aleksandra Fomina, Adam Tam, Jennifer Lam, Nila C. Wu, Nancy T. Li, Alison P. McGuigan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Fall Recovery Control for Legged Robots via Reinforcement Learning

Biomimetics
Falling is inevitable for legged robots when deployed in unstructured and unpredictable real-world scenarios, such as uneven terrain in the wild. Therefore, to recover dynamically from a fall without unintended termination of locomotion, the robot must ...
Sicen Li, Yiming Pang, Panju Bai, Shihao Hu, Liquan Wang, Gang Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robot-Centric Activity Recognition ‘in the Wild’

, 2015
This paper considers the problem of recognizing spontaneous human activities from a robot’s perspective. We present a novel dataset, where data is collected by an autonomous mobile robot moving around in a building and recording the activities of people in the surroundings.
Ilaria Gori, Jivko Sinapov, Priyanka Khante, Peter Stone 0001, J. K. Aggarwal   +4 more
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Biodegradable and Edible Milli‐Fluidic Logic Circuits

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Fully biodegradable and edible fluidic circuits are developed using gelatin‐based valves that operate at low pressure. Logic gates, a one‐bit memory, and a ring oscillator are demonstrated, showing that biodegradable materials can perform computation and control.
Shuhang Zhang, Bokeon Kwak, Özgün Ekrem, Dario Floreano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source