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Bubbles Acting as Micro End‐Effectors for Dexterous Manipulation and Sensing in Aqueous Environment
Inspired by bubbles, this article proposes a low‐cost method for multifunctional manipulation and sensing using microbubbles in aqueous environments. Bubbles are easily generated in situ, enabling the safe and adaptive handling of microobjects and sensing of microforces and surface textures.
Zichen Xu, Qingsong Xu
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A Two‐Stage Characterization Pipeline and Open‐Source Framework for Reproducible Tactile Sensing
The same soft tactile sensor returns different numbers when embodied in different robots. This is an Embodiment Gap that no shared framework currently captures transparently. A two‐stage characterization pipeline, paired with a FAIR open‐source digital datasheet, decouples intrinsic sensor behavior from embodiment effects and condenses cross‐laboratory
Matteo Lo Preti +6 more
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Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Functional Materials: Progress and Emerging Frontiers
Artificial intelligence is transforming the discovery of functional materials by linking synthesis, characterization, simulation, and design in unified workflows. Advances in machine learning, autonomous experimentation, and foundation models are accelerating innovation across energy, electronics, and biomedicine, while revealing new frontiers for ...
Cristiano Malica +38 more
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Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan +3 more
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Arabidopsis thaliana SPF1 and SPF2 are nuclear-located ULP2-like SUMO proteases that act downstream of SIZ1 in plant development. [PDF]
Castro PH +12 more
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Benchmarking Data‐Driven Control of Octopus‐Inspired Soft Arms in Underwater Environment
Underwater soft robots present safe, compliant interaction, yet reproducible control remains scarce. This work presents an open benchmark for octopus‐inspired arms: a smooth, velocity‐diverse data‐collection scheme produces a compact dataset to train a vanilla policy.
Muhammad Sunny Nazeer +6 more
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Quantum Chaos and Quantum Randomness-Paradigms of Entropy Production on the Smallest Scales. [PDF]
Dittrich T.
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Continuous and Large‐Scale: ELEANOR, the Soft Architected Arm Inspired by the Elephant Trunk
A large‐scale, architected continuum robot inspired by the macroscopic properties of the African elephant trunk achieves adaptive elephant‐like movements and whole‐body grasping. The results demonstrate that designing from the natural system’s macroscopic properties, rather than prescribing behaviors, provides a powerful strategy for developing ...
Giovanna A. Naselli +8 more
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This work demonstrates a layer‐bridging coordination strategy of Co single atoms in COFs that promotes the formation and utilization of triplet excited states. The introduction of Co single atoms induces pronounced energy‐level splitting and enhanced spin–orbit coupling, facilitating the generation of 1O2 and O2•– for efficient photocatalytic H2O2 ...
Guoen Tang +6 more
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