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Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2008
Traditional robots have rigid underlying structures that limit their ability to interact with their environment. For example, conventional robot manipulators have rigid links and can manipulate objects using only their specialised end effectors.
Deepak Trivedi, Christopher D. Rahn, William M. Kier, Ian D. Walker   +3 more
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Bio‐Friendly Artificial Muscles Based on Carbon Nanotube Yarns and Eutectogel Derivatives

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Solid‐state artificial muscles based on coiled commercial carbon nanotube yarns coated with eutectogel derivatives exhibit unipolar actuation through selective ion intercalation. Combining polyanionic and polycationic gels enables enhanced contractile stroke and high energy density.
Gabriela Ananieva, Cédric Vancaeyzeele, Giao T.M. Nguyen, Daniel Aguilera‐Bulla, Mathieu Pinault, Frédéric Vidal, Cédric Plesse   +6 more
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Medical image computing and computer-aided medical interventions applied to soft tissues. Work in progress in urology

, 2006
Until recently, Computer-Aided Medical Interventions (CAMI) and Medical Robotics have focused on rigid and non deformable anatomical structures. Nowadays, special attention is paid to soft tissues, raising complex issues due to their mobility and ...
Bart, Stéphane, Baumann, Michael, Berkelman, Peter, Bolla, Michel, Chartier-Kastler, Emmanuel, Cinquin, Philippe, Daanen, Vincent, Descotes, Jean-Luc, Dusserre, Andrée, Giraud, Jean-Yves, Leroy, Antoine, Long, Jean-Alexandre, Marchal, Maud, Moalic, Ronan, Mozer, Pierre, Payan, Yohan, Promayon, Emmanuel, Troccaz, Jocelyne, Voros, Sandrine   +18 more
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Golden‐Ratio–Guided Aperiodic Architected Metamaterials with Simultaneously Enhanced Strength and Toughness

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Guided by the golden ratio, a class of aperiodic architected metamaterials is introduced to address the intrinsic trade‐off between strength and toughness. By unifying local geometric heterogeneity with global order, the golden‐ratio‐guided aperiodic architecture promotes spatial delocalization of damage tolerence regions, leading to more tortuous ...
Junjie Deng, Xinxin Wang, Ruochao Zhao, Zhendong Li, Kai Liu, Ke Yuan, Jia An, Xinwei Li, Chee Kai Chua, Zhonggang Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploiting Two‐Photon Lithography, Deposition, and Processing to Realize Complex 3D Magnetic Nanostructures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Two‐photon lithography (TPL) enables 3D magnetic nanostructures with unmatched freedom in geometry and material choice. Advances in voxel control, deposition, and functionalization open pathways to artificial spin ices, racetracks, microrobots, and a number of additional technological applications.
Joseph Askey, Arjen van den Berg, Sandra Ruiz Gomez, Claire Donnelly, Dirk Grundler, Sam Ladak   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crack‐Growing Interlayer Design for Deep Crack Propagation and Ultrahigh Sensitivity Strain Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A crack‐growing semi‐cured polyimide interlayer enabling deep cracks for ultrahigh sensitivity in low‐strain regimes is presented. The sensor achieves a gauge factor of 100 000 at 2% strain and detects subtle deformations such as nasal breathing, highlighting potential for minimally obstructive biomedical and micromechanical sensing applications ...
Minho Kim, Taewi Kim, Jieun Park, Insic Hong, Myungrae Hong, Seonggyeong Park, Beomjin Kim, Sehyuk Ahn, Siwoo Jang, Seungyong Han, Je‐Sung Koh, Daeshik Kang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charge‐Induced Morphing Gels for Bioinspired Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel electroactive actuation mechanism that enables the gel material to generate substantial and reversible shape‐changing while preserving topological and isochoric (volumetric) equivalence. The resultant morphing behaviors can mimic the movements of muscle‐driven organelles in nature, including cilia‐like beating and ...
Ciqun Xu, Saba Firouznia, Charl F. J. Faul, Majid Taghavi, Jonathan Rossiter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of artificial neural synapses in soft robots

AIP Advances
Artificial neural network is considered to be one of the effective ways to enable soft robots to achieve high-performance control due to their significant advantages, such as massively parallel processing and distributed storage of information ...
Xuanting Ding
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Continuum Robots and Magnetic Soft Robots: From Models to Interdisciplinary Challenges for Medical Applications

Micromachines
This article explores the challenges of continuum and magnetic soft robotics for medical applications, extending from model development to an interdisciplinary perspective.
Honghong Wang, Yi Mao, Jingli Du
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Reconfigurable Magnetic Soft Microrobot for Acoustically Triggered Targeted Bacterial Sterilization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable magnetic soft microrobots integrate in situ‐grown piezoelectric zinc oxide nanorods that produce reactive oxygen species upon acoustic excitation. Combining magnetically guided transport with thermally induced planar reconfiguration, the microrobots achieve targeted delivery and enhanced bacterial sterilization through efficient on ...
Quan Gao, Fan Li, Jiajie Gao, Elric Zhang, Yingdong Su, Ni Qin, Hao Ye, Josep Puigmartí, Giuseppe Cantarella, Simone Schuerle, Jiang Wu, Bradley J. Nelson, Salvador Pané   +12 more
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