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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social and environmental influences on the welfare of zoo-housed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi rufiventris) [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this thesis was to provide a better understanding of the needs of spider monkeys (genus: Ateles) kept in zoological parks in order to provide an appropriate environment, which enhances the physical and emotional wellbeing of the individuals ...
Davis, Nicolas
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The efficacy of augmented reality exposure therapy in the treatment of spider phobia—a randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Psychology
The evidence for the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in treating specific phobias has been growing. However, issues of accessibility persist, especially in developing countries.
Tomas Jurcik, Svetlana Zaremba-Pike, Vladimir Kosonogov, Abdul-Raheem Mohammed, Yulia Krasavtseva, Yulia Krasavtseva, Yulia Krasavtseva, Tadamasa Sawada, Tadamasa Sawada, Tadamasa Sawada, Tadamasa Sawada, Irina Samarina, Nilufar Buranova, Peter Adu, Nikita Sergeev, Andrei Skuratov, Anastasia Demchenko, Yakov Kochetkov   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spider communities in agricultural habitats: the effect of habitat interfaces on the distribution of species. [PDF]

, 1992
Two Sites representing a change in habitat type at a community interface in an agricultural situation between managed and unmanaged areas were sampled using transects of pitfall traps crossing the interface at right angles from one habitat type to the ...
Ackland, Rosalyn
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Molecular and nanostructural mechanisms of deformation, strength and toughness of spider silk fibrils

, 2010
Spider silk is one of the strongest, most extensible and toughest biological materials known, exceeding the properties of many engineered materials including steel.
Keten, S., S. KETEN, Alberto Redaelli, A. NOVA, Markus J. Buehler, Markus J. Buehler, Nicola Pugno, M. J. BUEHLER, Redaelli, A., Sinan Keten, Andrea Nova, A. REDAELLI, Nova, A., Nicola M. Pugno, Buehler, M.J., Pugno, Nicola   +15 more
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Diversity and recombination in Wolbachia and Cardinium from Bryobia spider mites [PDF]

, 2012
Background Wolbachia and Cardinium are endosymbiotic bacteria infecting many arthropods and manipulating host reproduction. Although these bacteria are maternally transmitted, incongruencies between phylogenies of host and parasite suggest an additional ...
Vera I D Ros, Edward J Feil, Johannes A J Breeuwer, Breeuwer, J.A.J., Fleming, V.M., Feil, E.J., Ros, V.I.D., Vicki M Fleming   +7 more
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THE USEFULNESS OF SPIDERS [PDF]

The Canadian Entomologist, 1875
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openaire   +1 more source

Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalistic stimulation changes the dynamic response of action potential encoding in a mechanoreceptor

Frontiers in Physiology, 2015
Naturalistic signals were created from vibrations made by locusts walking on a Sansevieria plant. Both naturalistic and Gaussian noise signals were used to mechanically stimulate VS-3 slit-sense mechanoreceptor neurons of the spider, Cupiennius salei ...
Andrew Stanton French, Keram ePfeiffer
doaj   +1 more source