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Zhifeng Qi and Xiuting Sun
In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots. The earthworm-like locomotion robot is a representative multibody bionic robot, which has the cha...
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Yuhao Lai, Ruijun Ma, Yu Chen, Tao Wan, Rui Jiao and Huandong He
The accurate detection of pineapples of different maturity levels in a complex field environment is the key step to achieving the early yield estimation and mechanized picking of pineapple. This study proposes a target detection model based on the improv...
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Nikolaos Kladovasilakis, Ioannis Kostavelis, Paschalis Sideridis, Eleni Koltzi, Konstantinos Piliounis, Dimitrios Tzetzis and Dimitrios Tzovaras
During the last decade, soft robotic systems, such as actuators and grippers, have been employed in various commercial applications. Due to the need to integrate robotic mechanisms into devices operating alongside humans, soft robotic systems concentrate...
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Usman Asad, Shummaila Rasheed, Waqas Akbar Lughmani, Tayyaba Kazim, Azfar Khalid and Jürgen Pannek
Exponentially growing technologies such as intelligent robots in the context of Industry 4.0 are radically changing traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing with increased productivity and flexibility. Workspaces are being transformed into ...
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Junhao Zhang, Yinglong Chen, Yi Liu and Yongjun Gong
For decades, underwater vehicles have been performing underwater operations, which are critical to the development and upgrading of underwater robots. With the advancement of technology, various types of robots have been developed. The underwater robotic...
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Qimeng Liu, Hao Chen, Zhenhua Wang, Qu He, Linke Chen, Weikun Li, Ruipeng Li and Weicheng Cui
Recent research on robotic fish mainly focused on the bionic structure design and realizing the movement with smart materials. Although many robotic fish have been proposed, most of these works were oriented toward shallow water environments and are most...
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Boai Sun, Weikun Li, Zhangyuan Wang, Yunpeng Zhu, Qu He, Xinyan Guan, Guangmin Dai, Dehan Yuan, Ang Li, Weicheng Cui and Dixia Fan
Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore, they have gained an increasing research interest, which has led to a ...
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Lingkun Chen, Shusheng Bi, Yueri Cai, Yong Cao and Guang Pan
Bionic propulsion has advantages over traditional blade propellers, such as efficiency and noise control. Existing research on ray-inspired robot fish has mainly focused on a single type of pectoral fin as bionic propeller, which only performed well in t...
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José Emilio Traver, Cristina Nuevo-Gallardo, Paloma Rodríguez, Inés Tejado and Blas M. Vinagre
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are electrically driven materials that undergo bending deformations in the presence of relatively low external voltages, exhibiting a great potential as actuators in applications in soft robotics, microrobotics, and...
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Carl Strathearn
This study employs a novel 3D engineered robotic eye system with dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) pupils and a 3D sculpted and colourised gelatin iris membrane to replicate the appearance and materiality of the human eye. A camera system for facial ex...
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