Enhancing dynamic actuation performance of dielectric elastomer actuators by tuning viscoelastic effects with polar crosslinking by Tan, Matthew Wei Ming, Thangavel, Gurunathan, Lee, Pooi See

“…Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have shown great potential in the field of robotics, energy harvesting, or haptics for wearables. …”
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Development of eye gaze system for object selection in cluttered environment by Sin, Wei Zheng

“…In recent years, eye gaze or eye tracking is gaining a lot of traction, particularly in gaze-based human robot interaction (HRI). The information obtained from eye tracking can be used for a variety of purposes including but not limited to object grasping, wheelchair navigation and accessing computers or communication aids. …”
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Directed assembly of liquid metal-elastomer conductors for stretchable and self-healing electronics by Krisnadi, Febby, Nguyen, Linh Lan, Ankit, Ma, Jinwoo, Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra, Mathews, Nripan, Dickey, Michael D.

“…Growing interest in soft robotics, stretchable electronics, and electronic skins has created demand for soft, compliant, and stretchable electrodes and interconnects. …”
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Visual geometry Group-UNet : deep learning ultrasonic image reconstruction for curved parts by Mei, Yujian, Jin, Haoran, Yu, Bei, Wu, Eryong, Yang, Keji

“…Detecting small defects in curved parts through classical monostatic pulse-echo ultrasonic imaging is known to be a challenge. Hence, a robot-assisted ultrasonic testing system with the track-scan imaging method is studied to improve the detecting coverage and contrast of ultrasonic images. …”
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The bending-stretching effect of a nonlinear elastic beam under finite deformation by Wu, Mao See

“…This study may be applicable to the elasticity design of soft medical and wearable robots, where elastic compatibility with tissues is a primary consideration.…”
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Artificial intelligence for human-computer interaction by Low, Shi Min

“…To provide better human-computer interaction, the current implementation of dialogue systems should shift away from generic and robot-like responses. Therefore, this study aims to improve the current implementation and explore the usage of emojis in dialogue systems to further enhance human-computer interaction. …”
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Finite element modelling and analysis of certain "scissors-type" mechanism by Lim, Lionel Li Rong

“…Two different curvilinear geometries (quadrant and semi-circular) as well as two different applications (robot arm and overhead shelter) are studied. The static analysis reveals that the maximum stress is developed in members in the vicinity of the support end. …”
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TinyNAD: tiny network with augmentation and distillation on point cloud learning model by Yang, Zhiyuan

“…The development of practical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics, has brought 3D point cloud data from LiDAR or RGB-D cameras to work as a good supplement to the sense of the environment than pure images. …”
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Biological tunable photonics: emerging optoelectronic applications manipulated by living biomaterials by Zhang, Yifan, Wang, Ziyihui, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…Such applications include bioactivated light-emitting diodes, biological lasers, active plasmonics, robotics, biological logic gates, light-harvesting antennas, molecular photonic wires, bioenergy, and biophotovoltaics. …”
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Magnetic microswarm and fluoroscopy-guided platform for biofilm eradication in biliary stents by Sun, Mengmeng, Chan, Kai Fung, Zhang, Zifeng, Wang, Lu, Wang, Qinglong, Yang, Shihao, Chan, Shannon Melissa, Chiu, Philip Wai Yan, Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu, Zhang, Li

“…Magnetic urchin-like capsule robots (MUCRs) loaded with magnetic liquid metal droplets (MLMDs, antibacterial agents) are designed using natural sunflower pollen, and the therapeutic effect of swarming MUCR@MLMDs is explored for eradicating complex mixtures of bacterial biofilm within biliary stents collected from patients. …”
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Biomolecule-interactive flexible light emitting capacitor display by Qi, Xiaoying, Wu, Ruige, Lok, Boon Keng, Kerk, Wai Tat, Lai, Steve Foo Khuen, Fan, Wei, Pu, Kanyi

“…Ultrathin, lightweight, flexible, and conformable interactive displays that transduce external stimuli into human-readable signals are essential for emerging applications, such as wearable electronics, human-machine interfaces, and soft robots. Herein, a biomolecule-interactive flexible light emitting capacitor (LEC) display (BIO-LEC) capable of dynamic and quantitative visualization of biomolecules through naked-eye detectable electroluminescence (EL) emission is reported. …”
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Integrated wideband chip-scale RF transceivers for radar sensing and UWB communications: a survey by Fang, Zhongyuan, Wang, Wensong, Wang, Jipeng, Liu, Bingqiang, Tang, Kai, Lou, Liheng, Heng, Chun-Huat, Wang, Chao, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Furthermore, leveraging the artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced signal processing techniques, edge devices with energy-efficient integrated RF transceivers can ensure precise localization and realize versatile sensing to empower accurate health status monitoring, intelligent robots, gesture recognition, and enhanced communications. …”
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Partially-observable monocular autonomous navigation for UAVs through deep reinforcement learning by Zhang, Yuhang, Low, Kin Huat, Lv, Chen

“…Unlike traditional ground-based robots, UAV navigation is more challenging because their motions are not easily limited by the well-defined ground. …”
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Investigation on UAS navigational uncertainty in urban-like environment by Shi, Pengxiang

“…Simulation experiments were conducted using a ROS (Robot Operating System) simulation system to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. …”
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Thermodynamic machine learning through maximum work production by Boyd, Alexander B., Crutchfield, James P., Gu, Mile

“…Adaptive systems—such as a biological organism gaining survival advantage, an autonomous robot executing a functional task, or a motor protein transporting intracellular nutrients—must somehow embody relevant regularities and stochasticity in their environments to take full advantage of thermodynamic resources. …”
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Fuzzy-model-based robust control of Markov jump nonlinear systems with incomplete transition probabilities and uncertain packet dropouts by Xu, Zeyuan, Shi, Shaolong, Er, Meng Joo, Hu, Zhijian

“…An illustrative example of a robot arm is used to demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed control strategy. …”
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Universally grasping objects with granular-tendon finger: principle and design by Nguyen, Van Pho, Dhyan, Sunil Bohra, Han, Boon Siew, Chow, Wai Tuck

“…Nowadays, achieving the stable grasping of objects in robotics requires an increased emphasis on soft interactions. …”
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An analytic end-to-end collaborative learning algorithm by Li, Sitan, Cheah, Chien Chern

“…Then an online kinematics control task of a UR5e robot arm was performed to illustrate the regression approximation and online updating ability of our algorithm.…”
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Design methodology for deep out-of-distribution detectors in real-time cyber-physical systems by Yuhas, Michael, Ng, Daniel Jun Xian, Easwaran, Arvind

“…It also identifies several candidate task graphs under the Robot Operating System (ROS) for deployment of the selected design. …”
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Bioinspired iontronic synapse fibers for ultralow-power multiplexing neuromorphic sensorimotor textiles by Chen, Long, Ren, Ming, Zhou, Jianxian, Zhou, Xuhui, Liu, Fan, Di, Jiangtao, Xue, Pan, Li, Chunsheng, Li, Qingwen, Li, Yang, Wei, Lei, Zhang, Qichong

“…The proposed fiber system holds enormous promise in wearable electronics, soft robotics, and biomedical engineering.…”
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