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Golda Dilip, Ramakrishna Guttula, Sivaram Rajeyyagari, Hemalatha S + 5 more
'Radha Raman Pandey' 'Ashim Bora' 'Pravin R Kshirsagar' 'Khanapurkar M M' 'Venkatesa Prabhu Sundramurthy'] A rising proportion of older people has more demand on services including hospitals, retirement homes, and assisted living facilities. Regaining control of this population's expectations will pose new difficulties…
Marek Bujňák, Rastislav Pirník, Karol Rástočný, Aleš Janota + 7 more
'Dušan Nemec' 'Pavol Kuchár' 'Tomáš Tichý' 'Zbigniew Łukasik' 'Igor Korobiichuk' 'Michał Nowicki' 'Cosimo Distante'] The review discusses the possibilities of different driving mechanisms and sensors of spherical robots, and a special kind of mobile robots is introduced and discussed. The sensors discussed can expand…
Andrea Tanzini, Marco Ruggeri, Eleonora Bianchi, Caterina Valentino + 6 more
'Barbara Vigani' 'Franca Ferrari' 'Silvia Rossi' 'Hermes Giberti' 'Giuseppina Sandri' 'Tania Limongi'] Several nanomedicine based medicinal products recently reached the market thanks to the drive of the COVID-19 pandemic. These products are characterized by criticality in scalability and reproducibility of the…
Jonathan Arreguit, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Auke Ijspeert
The study of animal locomotion and neuromechanical control offers valuable insights for advancing research in neuroscience, biomechanics, and robotics. We have developed FARMS (Framework for Animal and Robot Modeling and Simulation), an open-source, interdisciplinary framework, designed to facilitate access to…
Fran Soljacic, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Theresa Law, Matthias Scheutz
As AI-enabled robots enter the realm of healthcare and caregiving, it is important to consider how they will address the dimensions of care and how they will interact not just with the direct receivers of assistance, but also with those who provide it (e.g., caregivers, healthcare providers etc.). Caregiving in its…
Chris Csíkszentmihályi
— A critical and re-configured HRI might look to the arts, where another history of robots has been unfolding since the Czech artist Karel Capek's critical robotic labor parable of 1921, in which the word robot was coined in its modern usage. This paper explores several vectors by which artist-created robots, both…
Karla Schröder, Gonzalo Garcia, Roberto Chacón, Guelis Montenegro + 4 more
'Alberto Marroquín' 'Gonzalo Farias' 'Sebastián Dormido-Canto' 'Ernesto Fabregas'] This paper presents the design and implementation of a spherical robot with an internal mechanism based on a pendulum. The design is based on significant improvements made, including an electronics upgrade, to a previous robot prototype…
Robert Riener, Luca Rabezzana, Yves Zimmermann
The incessant progress of robotic technology and rationalization of human manpower induces high expectations in society, but also resentment and even fear. In this paper, we present a quantitative normalized comparison of performance, to shine a light onto the pressing question, “How close is the current state of…
Krishnaraj Rao N S, N J Avinash, Rama Moorthy H, K Karthik + 2 more
'Sudesh Rao' 'S Santosh'] Abstract—The term 'robot' generally refers to a machine that looks and works in a way similar to a human. The modern industry is rapidly shifting from manual control of systems to automation, in order to increase productivity and to deliver quality products. Computer-based systems, though…
Stefan Fabian, A Schmidt, Jonas Süß, Dishant + 2 more
— In disaster response and situation assessment, robots have great potential in reducing the risks to the safety and health of first responders. As the situations encountered and the required capabilities of the robots deployed in such missions differ wildly and are often not known in advance, heterogeneous fleets of…
Charlotte Canteloup, Joonho Lee, Samuel Zimmermann, Morgane Alvino + 3 more
Animal-robot interaction studies have been of increasing interest in research, but most of these studies have involved robots interacting with insects, birds, and frogs in laboratory settings. To date, only two studies used non-human primates and no behavioral study has tested the social integration of a robot in a…
Carlos Prados, Miguel Hernando, Ernesto Gambao, Alberto Brunete + 2 more
'Otar Akanyeti' 'Lily Chambers'] Robotic control is a fundamental part of autonomous robots. Modular legged and climbing robots are complex machines made up of a variety of subsystems, ranging from a single robot with simple legs to a complex system composed of multiple legs (or modules) with computing power and…
Ali Ahmad Malik, Tariq Masood, Alexander Brem
- 1. Humanoid robots are gaining traction but their implication in the manufacturing practices especially for industrial safety standards and lean manufacturing practices have been minimally addressed. - 2. This article proposes a framework to integrate humanoids for manufacturing automation and also presents the…
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Process chemistry creates scalable routes for new lead molecules and is a crucial but laborious stage in pharmaceutical and agrochemical development cycles. We have built an automated process chemistry platform that tackles late-stage process development. The modular workflow integrates both industry-standard tools and…
Alice James, Avishkar Seth, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
for Education and Research Authors: ['Alice James' 'Avishkar Seth' 'Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay'] Abstract—We introduce MecQaBot, an open-source, affordable, and modular autonomous mobile robotics framework developed for education and research at Macquarie University, School of Engineering, since 2019. This platform…
Eric Leonardis, Leo Breston, Rhiannon Lucero-Moore, Leigh Sena + 6 more
Interactive neurorobotics is a subfield which characterizes brain responses evoked during interaction with a robot, and their relationship with the behavioral responses. Gathering rich neural and behavioral data from humans or animals responding to agents can act as a scaffold for the design process of future social…
F.R. Noreils
- 1. An analysis of 12 companies based on eight criteria described in section 3. Although these criteria are subjective, they have the benefit of being able to distinguish companies based on their maturity and approach to the market; - 2. These humanoids are very complex systems facing technological challenges which…
Rick P. Wierenga, Stefan Golas, Wilson Ho, Connor Coley + 1 more
Liquid handling robots are often limited by proprietary programming interfaces that are only compatible with a single type of robot and operating system, restricting method sharing and slowing development. Here we present PyLabRobot, an open-source, cross-platform Python interface capable of programming diverse…
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The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past decade, where 3D printers are repurposed as laboratory-specific robots. There are three distinct approaches in the…
Leo Foulds, Donan Satria Yudha, Parvez Alam
In this paper,we consider the feasibility of mimicking the sprawling gait of a live varanid (Varanus salvator) using a necrobot (named: Pak Biawak), a robot constructed using the skeletal parts of a deceased varanid of the same species. Pak Biawak is manufactured using simple joints and components, and limb motion is…
Catie Cuan, Tianshuang Qiu, Shreya Ganti, Ken Goldberg
Expressiveness Authors: ['Catie Cuan' 'Tianshuang Qiu' 'Shreya Ganti' 'Ken Goldberg'] Abstract. This paper describes the robot technology behind an original performance that pairs a human dancer (Cuan) with an industrial robot arm for an eight-hour dance that unfolds over the timespan of an American workday. To control…
Robert Siddall
The development of robots as tools for biological research, sometimes termed “biorobotics”, has grown rapidly in recent years, fueled by the proliferation of miniaturized computation and advanced manufacturing techniques. Much of this work is focused on the use of robots as biomechanical models for natural systems.…
Ruituo Huai, Haoran Zhu, Shuo Yang, Zhihao Yu + 5 more
In this study, We design a trajectory recording and analysis system to record and analysis the changes in the movement behavior of the cockroach robot after stimulation. The external hardware of this system is an infrared touchpad as the experimental platform for the cockroach robot to crawl freely, and the infrared…
Xuelong Sun, Michael Mangan, Jigen Peng, Shigang Yue
Achieving a comprehensive understanding of animal intelligence demands an integrative approach that acknowledges the interplay between an organism’s brain, body, and environment. Insects like ants, despite their limited computational resources, demonstrate remarkable abilities in navigation. Existing computational…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…
Naruki Yoshikawa, Kourosh Darvish, Animesh Garg, Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Self-driving laboratories promise to democratize automated chemical laboratories. Accurate liquid handling is an essential operation in the context of chemical labs, and consequently a self-driving laboratory will require a robotic liquid handling and transfer. Although many pipettes are available for human scientists…
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Despite the promise of self-driving laboratories to accelerate discovery, their widespread implementation is hindered by prohibitive cost and technical complexity. We introduce BrickSDLab, a fully functional self-driving lab platform built entirely from LEGO® components, designed to bridge this accessibility gap.…
Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Hiroki Ishikawa, Shinya Takaishi, Yasuhiko Igarashi + 2 more
This study proposes an automated system for synthesizing polyamic acid particles using a custom liquid-handling device and a robotic arm. Integrating cameras and a multimodal large language model facilitates continuous monitoring and documentation, enhancing objectivity in synthetic experiments, and enabling future…
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This paper presents GLAS (Git-based Lab Automated Scheduler or Get Lab Automation Simplified), an open-source, robust, and highly expandable Git-based architecture designed for laboratory automation. GLAS can be deployed in both partially and fully automated experimental science laboratories, enabling the development…