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MAGTWIST: A Magnetically‐Driven Rotary Actuator Using a Traveling‐Wave With Integrated Stiffness Tunability

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAGTWIST: A compact magnetic rotary actuator, enabling smooth, stepless rotation, and on‐demand locking. Inspired by peristalsis, a soft polymer belt generates a traveling‐wave, enabling 270° rotation when heated. Cooling stiffens the belt, locking it in position and enabling it to withstand high loads.
Simon Frieler, Jean‐Paul P.M. de Vries, Sarthak Misra, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fluid-based robot skin for contact detection and thermal stimulation

ROBOMECH Journal
Robot skin is essential for achieving physical human-robot interaction. In particular, a warm feeling with a soft tactile impression is necessary for a human-friendly robot design.
Daisuke Shionoiri, Yukiko Osawa
doaj   +1 more source

Pixelation‐Free, Monolithic Iontronic Pressure Sensors Enabling Large‐Area Simultaneous Pressure and Position Recognition via Machine Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A pixelation‐free, monolithic iontronic pressure sensor enables simultaneous pressure and position sensing over large areas. AC‐driven ion release generates spatially varying impedance pathways depending on the pressure. Machine learning algorithms effectively decouple overlapping pressure–position signals from the multichannel outputs, achieving high ...
Juhui Kim, Junseo Lee, Kwang‐Hun Choi, Seongil Im, Jae Hong Kim, Changsoon Choi, Junghwan Byun, Changhwan Shin, Ho Won Jang, Hyunsu Ju, Jung Ah Lim   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Robotic Platform for Precision Vineyard Operations

IEEE Access
With the growing global demand for plant production, the agricultural sector faces the urgent challenge of developing innovative, efficient, and sustainable solutions.
Erfan Khiali, Alessandro Marchetti, Gabriele Ribolla, Francesca Negrello, Mario Corsanici, Vinicio Tincani, Antonio Bicchi, Fabio Previdi, Manuel G. Catalano   +8 more
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Gourd‐Inspired Design of Unit Cell with Multiple Gradients for Physiological‐Range Pressure Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Gourd‐shaped micro‐dome arrays with coordinated modulus, conductivity, and geometric gradients co‐optimize sensitivity and linearity in piezoresistive tactile sensors. Under pressure, a solid upper dome embeds into a porous lower dome, triggering rapid contact‐area growth and series‐to‐parallel conduction, enabling unsaturated, intensity‐resolved ...
Jiayi Xu, Ming Lei, Yuanzhe Liang, Biao Qi, Ziyi Dai, Yong Zhao, Bingpu Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Novel Crawling Pneumatic Soft Robot

Automation
Soft robots have shown great application potential in human–computer interaction, scientific exploration, and biomedical fields. However, they generally face issues like poor load capacity.
Huaqing Wu, Yutong Han, Xinyu Chen, Rong Lu, Erxing Zhuang, Huaping Wu, Xiaodi Jiang, Xiaojun Tan, Bo Cao   +8 more
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Nanolayer‐Encapsulated Stretchable Liquid‐Metal Sheets for Thermal Management

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A stretchable liquid metal sheet with both high thermal conductivity and mechanical flexibility is developed. Its trilayer structure, comprising copper‐particle‐dispersed gallium liquid metal encapsulated by styrene‐butadiene‐styrene nanosheets, shows 40.4 W m−1 K−1 conductivity, elongation exceeding 200%, and retention of 96% of its initial ...
Daisuke Kuse, Yudai Kaneko, Ryohei Fujita, Tatsuhiro Horii, Daishi Shiojiri, Yuta Ozawa, Kyohei Nagatake, Tamami Takano, Yutaka Isoda, Aoi Koishikawa, Takashi Goto, Ai Ueno, Shoji Maruo, Kazuhide Ueno, Toshinori Fujie, Hosei Nagano, Hiroki Ota   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconfigurable Transparent Variable‐Stiffness Soft Robot for Underwater Operations

Advanced Intelligent Systems
In the realm of underwater exploration and operations, soft robots exhibit considerable application potential due to their capacity for agile and complex deformations as well as their inherent compliance.
Qin Fang, Jingyu Zhang, Pingyu Xiang, Nenggan Zheng, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, Zhefeng Gong, Haojian Lu   +7 more
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Nanodiamond‐Based Quantum Sensing Reveals Changes in Endo‐Lysosomal Activity of Stimulated Cardiac Fibroblasts in a Cellular Fibrosis Model

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Quantum sensing reveals intricate patterns linking endo‐lysosomal maturation to cardiac fibrosis progression, highlighting complexity in cellular remodeling. This study investigates fibroblast‐to‐myofibroblast transition under cell aging, stiffness, and TGF‐β stimulation, comparing nanodiamond uptake, endo‐lysosomal dynamics, and free radical ...
Aldona Mzyk, Ezgi Yilmaz, Giovanni D Angelo, Kirstine Berg‐Sørensen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug‐Free Thrombolysis Mediated by Physically Activated Micro/Nanoparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Overview of particle‐mediated thrombolytic effects (thermal, mechanical, and chemical) and their activating physical stimuli (light, ultrasound, and magnetic field) in drug‐free thrombolysis. ABSTRACT Thrombus‐associated disorders rank among the world's leading causes of death, with ischemic heart disease and stroke as the main contributors.
Pierre Sarfati, Yoann Lalatonne, Cédric Chauvierre   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source