Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park. Iconoclasm, memory and the importance of space
The Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park is located in rural Taiwan and features over 200 statues of the former authoritarian leader, Chiang Kai-shek (1893-1975). Taiwan had been ruled by Chiang and his son for 38 years of martial law, which ended in 1987. Since then, democracy has developed and the past has been put under scrutiny. Statues of Chiang decorated
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Multidirectional Motion Strategy of Miniature Water Surface Robot Actuated by Single Exciter
A novel multidirectional motion strategy on the water surface based on a single exciter is proposed, and a single‐exciter single‐plate module is developed for actuation. The driving forces generation mechanism of the module is revealed from the perspective of the asymmetric surface wave field.
Haoxuan He +4 more
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Folds in Time: Artists' Responses to the Temporal and the Uncanny. An international conference, convened by Brass Art in association with the Freud Museum London, as part of the Festival of the Unconscious 2015. [PDF]
This conference brings together artists, curators and writers to examine the ways artists harness aspects of the uncanny and the unconscious in their navigation of physical and imagined spaces.
Lewis, Chara +2 more
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Robots can learn manipulation tasks from human demonstrations. This work proposes a versatile method to identify the physical interactions that occur in a demonstration, such as sequences of different contacts and interactions with mechanical constraints.
Alex Harm Gert‐Jan Overbeek +3 more
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Impact of landscape installation design on emotional loneliness: interaction style as a moderating factor. [PDF]
Gong M.
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Using sculpture, principle of common links between art and park
The art form of the park should be especially well planned colorful composition and organization of the facility in which all components - architecture, sculpture and vegetation are combined into a harmonious whole. Sculpture in the park can be looked at from a purely artistic point of view and perception of the synthesis between sculpture art and park
Despot, Katerina, Sandeva, Vaska
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms
A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello +7 more
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Revision of <i>Acroclisoides</i> Girault & Dodd, 1915 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Metasteninae). [PDF]
Tselikh EV +4 more
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