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Swelling‐Programmed Topographical Guidance for Dynamic Spheroid Self‐Assembly via a Mechanochemical Hydrogel Niche

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A swelling‐programmed micropatterned hydrogel guides adherent cells through a controlled transition from cell–matrix anchoring to cadherin‐mediated cell–cell compaction, enabling rapid assembly of high‐viability spheroids with defined size and morphology.
Han Gyeol Nam, Seon Yeong Chae, Young Woo Kwon, Hye Jin Heo, Hye Rin Lee, Ji Hyeok Lee, Dong‐Wook Han, Yun Hak Kim, Suck Won Hong   +8 more
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Chiral Phase Change Nanomaterials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates reversible, non‐volatile phase transitions in chiral Ge2${\rm Ge}_2$Sb2${\rm Sb}_2$Te5${\rm Te}_5$ (GST) nanohelices for high‐speed optical modulation of chirality and dynamic control of the state of polarization (SOP). The chiral nanostructures are fabricated using a highly directional, wafer‐scale physical vapor deposition ...
Joshua A. Burrow, Md Shah Alam, Riad Yahiaoui, Evan M. Smith, Ryan Laing, Jules Gardener, Thomas A. Searles, Piyush J. Shah, Shivashankar Vangala, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Andrew M. Sarangan, Imad Agha   +11 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Design and Control of a Series–Parallel Elastic Actuator for a Weight-Bearing Exoskeleton Robot

Sensors, 2022
Weight-bearing exoskeletons are robots that need to carry loads and interact with humans frequently. Therefore, the actuators of these exoskeletons are supposed to be capable of outputting sufficient force with high compliance and little weight. A series–
Tianshuo Wang, Tianjiao Zheng, Sikai Zhao, Dongbao Sui, Jie Zhao, Yanhe Zhu   +5 more
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Bipedal locomotion using variable stiffness actuation

CoRR, 2017
Robust and energy-efficient bipedal locomotion in robotics is still a challenging topic. In order to address issues in this field, we can take inspiration from nature, by studying human locomotion. The Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) model has shown to be a good model for this purpose.
Ludo C. Visser, Stefano Stramigioli, Raffaella Carloni   +2 more
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Overcoming the Torque/Stiffness Range Tradeoff in Antagonistic Variable Stiffness Actuators

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2021
To face the demand for applications in which robots have to safely interact with humans and the environment, the research community developed new types of actuators with compliant characteristics. To embody compliance into the actuator, elastic elements with fixed or variable compliance can be used.
Mengacci R., Garabini M., Grioli G., Catalano M., Bicchi A.   +4 more
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Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters Can Drive Polarization Reversal in a Non‐Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric nanoclusters create local internal fields in a normally non‐switchable polar film because of polarization mismatch at their interfaces. That field opposes polarization in the regions with larger polarization and reinforces polarization in the regions with smaller polarization.
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long‐Qing Chen, Dean R. Evans, Venkatraman Gopalan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of the VSA (Variable Stiffness Actuator) Mechanism Using Cam Shape [PDF]

한국정밀공학회지, 2019
As the exoskeleton robot for the assistance of walking is on the rise, HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) come to be an important issue. So in this research the angle following Variable Stiffness Actuator by using cam for overcoming the limitation of volume ...
Si young Jang, Yun hye Song, Yoon Su Baek   +2 more
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Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Yichao Shi, Sameh Tawfick, James H. Pikul   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling, Identification, and Control of a Discrete Variable Stiffness Actuator (DVSA)

Actuators, 2019
A branch of robotics, variable impedance actuation, along with one of its subfields variable stiffness actuation (VSA) targets the realization of complaint robotic manipulators.
Irfan Hussain, Ahmad Albalasie, Mohammad I. Awad, Dongming Gan   +3 more
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