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Scientific Reports, 2021 Wrist rehabilitation is needed to help post-stroke and post-surgery patients recover from wrist fracture or injury. Traditional rehabilitation training is conducted by a therapist in a hospital, which hinders timely treatment due to the corresponding ...
Yaxi Wang, Qingsong Xu
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A Soft Robotic Cover with Dual Thermal Display and Sensing Capabilities [PDF]
, 2020 We propose a new robotic cover prototype that achieves thermal display while also being soft. We focus on the thermal cue because previous human studies have identified it as part of the touch pleasantness.
Kheddar, Abderrahmane, Osawa, Yukiko
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Worm‐Inspired Soft Robots Enable Adaptable Pipeline and Tunnel Inspection
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 The inspection, maintenance, and repair of pipeline and tunnel infrastructure have motivated the increasing research in the development of suitable robots with high flexibility, good adaptability, and large load capacity.
Xiaomin Liu +4 more
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Safely catching aerial micro-robots in mid-air using an open-source aerial robot with soft gripper
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 This work focuses on catching safely an aerial micro-robot in mid-air using another aerial robot that is equipped with a universal soft gripper. To avoid aerodynamic disturbances such as downwash, that would push the target robot away, we follow a ...
Zhichao Liu +3 more
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A flexible sensor technology for the distributed measurement of interaction pressure [PDF]
, 2013 We present a sensor technology for the measure of the physical human-robot interaction pressure developed in the last years at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Bram Koopman +11 more
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Biomimetics, 2019 In Nature, the adaptability of many organisms and their capability to survive in challenging and dynamically changing environments are closely linked to their characteristics and the morphology of their body parts [...]
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Solar‐Driven Soft Robots [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 AbstractStimuli‐responsive materials have been lately employed in soft robotics enabling new classes of robots that can emulate biological systems. The untethered operation of soft materials with high power light, magnetic field, and electric field has been previously demonstrated.
Seyed M. Mirvakili +3 more
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A soft crawling robot with a modular design based on electrohydraulic actuator
iScience, 2023 Summary: The soft structure of creatures without a rigid internal skeleton can easily adapt to any atypical environment. In the same context, robots with soft structures can change their shape to adapt to complex and varied surroundings.
Sohyun Kim, Youngsu Cha
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Multidimensional Capacitive Sensing for Robot-Assisted Dressing and Bathing [PDF]
, 2019 Robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with physical disabilities, yet accurately sensing the human body and tracking human motion remain difficult for robots.
Clever, Henry M. +5 more
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Design and Applications of Soft Actuators Based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) 3D Printing
IEEE Access, 2023 Compared with rigid robots, soft robots have the advantages of strong environmental adaptability, good human-robot interaction, and simple control systems; therefore, soft actuators have been widely studied in recent years.
Jingjing Wan, Lechen Sun, Tianhao Du
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