Shaping high-performance wearable robots for human motor and sensory reconstruction and enhancement
Nature CommunicationsMost wearable robots such as exoskeletons and prostheses can operate with dexterity, while wearers do not perceive them as part of their bodies. In this perspective, we contend that integrating environmental, physiological, and physical information ...
Haisheng Xia +6 more
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Nanolayer‐Encapsulated Stretchable Liquid‐Metal Sheets for Thermal Management
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A stretchable liquid metal sheet with both high thermal conductivity and mechanical flexibility is developed. Its trilayer structure, comprising copper‐particle‐dispersed gallium liquid metal encapsulated by styrene‐butadiene‐styrene nanosheets, shows 40.4 W m−1 K−1 conductivity, elongation exceeding 200%, and retention of 96% of its initial ...
Daisuke Kuse +16 more
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Structure design and kinematics analysis of wearable upper limb rehabilitation robots
Jixie chuandongObjectiveA portable wearable upper limb rehabilitation robot was designed to address the problems of large volume, complex structure, and inconvenient movement of existing upper limb rehabilitation robots.MethodsAdopting a new type of internal and ...
WANG Xin, GAO Jinpeng, JIA Chengfu
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Foot contact forces can be used to personalize a wearable robot during human walking. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Jacobson M +6 more
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Comfort-Centered Design of a Lightweight and Backdrivable Knee Exoskeleton
, 2019 This paper presents design principles for comfort-centered wearable robots and their application in a lightweight and backdrivable knee exoskeleton. The mitigation of discomfort is treated as mechanical design and control issues and three solutions are ...
Carriero, Alessandra +10 more
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Novel Functional Materials via 3D Printing by Vat Photopolymerization
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Perspective systematically analyzes strategies for incorporating functionalities into 3D‐printed materials via Vat Photopolymerization (VP). It explores the spectrum of achievable functionalities in recently reported novel materials—such as conductive, energy‐storing, biodegradable, stimuli‐responsive, self‐healing, shape‐memory, biomaterials, and
Sergey S. Nechausov +3 more
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Utility of a wearable robot for the fingers that uses pneumatic artificial muscles for patients with post-stroke spasticity. [PDF]
Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci, 2022 Mita M +7 more
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Is Ambient Intelligence a truly Human-Centric Paradigm in Industry? Current Research and Application Scenario [PDF]
The use of pervasive networked devices is nowadays a reality in the service sector. It impacts almost all aspects of our daily lives, although most times we are not aware of its influence.
José Barata +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Reprogrammable multi‐material smart textiles knitted from liquid crystal elastomer fibers undergo 2D and 3D deformation under thermal and photo stimuli. Circularly knitted tubular structures reversibly contract in radial and axial directions, enabling autonomous climbing, liquid release, and micro pumping.
Xue Wan +8 more
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Analysis of the Bayesian Gait-State Estimation Problem for Lower-Limb Wearable Robot Sensor Configurations. [PDF]
IEEE Robot Autom Lett, 2022 Medrano RL +3 more
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