Humanoid robots and other general-purpose robotic platforms have made astonishing progress in locomotion and perception. Some can now run, jump, and even perform flips, while advanced computer vision ...

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This paper describes collaborative sensing and actuation algorithms for environment control in the framework of optimization. The sensor network topology is self-configured according to the sensing ...

This publication presents a novel actuator which makes use of temperature-dependent phase change to convert diurnal temperature variations into a variable force for energy harvesting. The developed ...

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Piezoresistive strain sensors dominate the field of soft elastomer sensors, with many interesting findings and applications. Nevertheless, the methods of characterizing the performance of the sensor ...

Using density functional theory calculations, the adsorption of gaseous molecules (NO, NO2, NH3, SO2, CO, HCN, O2, H2, N2, CO2, and H2O) on the graphitic SiC monolayer and bilayer has been ...