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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Dual‐Band Circularly Polarised Asymmetric Linear‐Tapered Horn Antenna for Feeder of Synthetic Aperture Radar Onboard Microsatellite

IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
This paper presents a novel dual‐band waveguide‐fed circularly polarised (CP) horn antenna for the feeder of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) onboard microsatellite.
Derry Permana Yusuf, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Yuki Yoshimoto, Steven Gao, Koichi Ito   +4 more
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
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Half‐Wavelength Uncertainty Compensated Accurate Estimation of Dielectric Constant of Low‐Loss Dielectrics at GHz Frequencies

IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
The presented paper addresses the divergence issue of Nicholson–Ross–Weir (NRW) algorithm encountered during the electrical characterisation of half‐wavelength or thicker low‐loss dielectric materials.
Virendra S. Chauhan
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A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma, Ruxiang Jiang, Kaspar Althoefer, Nicolas Herzig, Hareesh Godaba   +4 more
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Wilhelm Hofmeister revisited: Meristematic surfaces channel information flows in organogenesis

Quantitative Plant Biology
Plant development relies not only on intracellular biochemical signals but also on physical information that is transmitted across cells and tissues. In growing plant organs, surface geometry and mechanics can act together to channel stress and strain ...
Philip M. Lintilhac
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Photonic‐Enabled Energy‐Efficient Transparent Neuromorphic Computing Devices: A Review

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Transparent photonic neuromorphic computing devices merge optics and brain‐inspired computing to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks with ultrafast, low‐energy processing. By exploiting transparent oxides, 2D materials, phase‐change materials, and hybrid heterostructures, these platforms enable photonic synapses, memory, and logic for see‐through edge ...
Shuvaraj Ghosh, Ki‐bum Lee, Junghyeon Lee, Seunghee Cho, Malkeshkumar Patel, Hangfei Li, Yu Wen, Ye Zhou, Joondong Kim   +8 more
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Interaction of relativistic electrons with intense electromagnetic fields: ponderomotive\,effect, acceleration,\,refraction,\,reflection, dependence\,on\,initial\,conditions

Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science
The rigorous theory and characterization of charged-particle dynamics in high-intensity electromagnetic fields are fundamental for the development of advanced plasma-based applications.
Alejandro J. Castillo, Yuriy Gr. Rudoy
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