Historic floors, including mosaics, stone slabs, and decorated pavements, are fragile elements that can be easily damaged during restoration works. Risks arise from falling tools, concentrated loads of scaffolding or equipment, and the repeated passa...
Swarming and modular robotic locomotion are two disconnected behaviours that a group of small homogeneous robots can be used to achieve. The use of these two behaviours is a popular subject in robotics research involving search, rescue and exploratio...
The design and manufacturing of lightweight structures (also termed lightweighting) are essential for many industrial applications to reduce material and energy consumption, impacting industries from automobiles to aerospace. Through millions of year...
MoCLORA (Modular Climbing-and-Legged Robotic Organism Architecture) is a software framework for climbing bio-inspired robotic organisms composed of modular robots (legs). It is presented as a modular low-level architecture that coordinates the module...
The LH1 complex is the major light-harvesting antenna of purple photosynthetic bacteria. Its role is to capture photons, and then store them and transfer the excitation energy to the photosynthetic reaction center. The structure of LH1 is modular and...
The origin of life initiated an evolutionary continuum yielding biologically optimized systems capable of operating under extreme environmental constraints. Biomimetics, defined as the systematic abstraction and transfer of biological principles into...
Automation in agricultural machinery, underpinned by the integration of advanced technologies, is revolutionizing sustainable farming practices. Key enabling technologies include multi-source positioning fusion (e.g., RTK-GNSS/LiDAR), intelligent per...
With the rapid expansion of cloud computing and the pervasive growth of IoT across industries and educational sectors, the need for efficient remote data management and service orchestration has become paramount. Web services, facilitated by APIs, of...
Table ASSIST-EW is a lightweight, portable, and ergonomic exoskeletal device that is designed to support upper limb rehabilitation and to facilitate regular exercise in elderly users. Targeting the elbow and wrist joints, the device delivers smooth c...
An accurate detection and classification of scenes and objects is essential for interacting with the world, both for living beings and for artificial systems. To reproduce this ability, which is so effective in the animal world, numerous computationa...
The industrial revolution 4.0 has led to a burst in the development of robotic automation and platforms to increase productivity in the industrial and health domains. Hence, there is a necessity for the design and production of smart and multi-functi...
Most pediatric exoskeletons for cerebral palsy (CP) focus on lower-limb assistance and neglect trunk control, limiting rehabilitation outcomes. This study presents a self-aligning trunk–limb exoskeleton that integrates trunk stabilization with...
Water scarcity inhibits plant growth, especially in arid regions. Traditional irrigation methods often lack efficiency and sustainability. This study investigates AquaTrap, a biomimetic design, as a potential solution. The study highlights AquaTrap’s...