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Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

Mark H. Yim, Wei‐Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, Daniela L. Rus et al. • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (2007)

The field of modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems addresses the design, fabrication, motion planning, and control of autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Modular self-reconfigurable systems have the promise of maki...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2007.339623

Two decades of breakthroughs: charting the future of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Paolo Bonato, David Reinkensmeyer, Mario Manto • Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (2025)

Abstract The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER) has become a major actor for the dissemination of knowledge in the scientific community, bridging the gaps between innovative neuroengineering and rehabilitation. Major fiel...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12984-025-01580-5

An Augmented Discrete-Time Approach for Human-Robot Collaboration

Peidong Liang, Lianzheng Ge, Yihuan Liu, Lijun Zhao et al. • Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (2016)

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is a key feature to distinguish the new generation of robots from conventional robots. Relevant HRC topics have been extensively investigated recently in academic institutes and companies to improve human and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2016/9126056

Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities

Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti • Science Robotics (2016)

The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such achievements are reviewed here in terms of the abilitie...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aah3690

Virtual Reality-Based Center of Mass-Assisted Personalized Balance Training System

Deepesh Kumar, Alejandro González, Alejandro González, Abhijit Das et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2018)

Poststroke hemiplegic patients often show altered weight distribution with balance disorders, increasing their risk of fall. Conventional balance training, though powerful, suffers from scarcity of trained therapists, frequent visits to cli...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2017.00085

Progress in Bioinspired Dry and Wet Gradient Materials from Design Principles to Engineering Applications

Xiaoxiao Dong, Hong Zhao, Jiapeng Li, Yu Tian et al. • iScience (2020)

Summary: Nature does nothing in vain. Through millions of years of revolution, living organisms have evolved hierarchical and anisotropic structures to maximize their survival in complex and dynamic environments. Many of these structures ar...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101749

The Effect of Robotics and Coding Education on Girls’ STEM Motivation, Attitude and Career Aspirations

Salih Gülen, İsmail Dönmez, Fatma Betül Şengönül, Miyase Aslantaş et al. • SAGE Open (2025)

STEM education aims to develop 21st-century skills, support economic growth and promote gender equality in STEM fields. It is known that gender stereotypes play a significant role in the formation of STEM identity. The most important factor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21582440251382631

Soft Robotics

George M. Whitesides • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2018)

This description of "soft robotics" is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of a comprehensive technical summary of a developing field. Rather, its objective is to describe soft robotics as a new field-one that offers oppo...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201800907

An inexact multiple-recourse hybrid-fuel management model with considering carbon reduction requirement for a biofuel-penetrated heating system

D.Z. Fu, T.J. Yang, Y.J. Pan, Y.M. Tong • Energy Reports (2023)

In China’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060, the blending-biofuel-based heating technique is being used to reduce CO2 and air-pollutant emissions in existing district heating systems in northern China. This brings a series of new ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2023.03.081

4D printing of semi-crystalline crosslinked polymer networks with two-way shape-memory effect

Lorenzo Bonetti, Daniele Natali, Stefano Pandini, Massimo Messori et al. • Materials & Design (2024)

This paper introduces a novel approach to 4D printing tailored structures with reversible two-way shape-memory effect (SME) through material extrusion technology. To this aim, methacrylated poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was synthesized and eva...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112725

Improvement of Cycling Stability of Core–Shell Structured Ni-Rich NMC Cathodes by Using a Tungsten Oxide Stabilization Interlayer

Bilal Tasdemir, Svitlana Krüger, Pinank Sohagiya, Apurba Ray et al. • Batteries (2026)

The growing demand for higher-energy lithium-ion batteries, encompassing consumer electronics, stationary grid storage, and electric mobility to specialized sectors like aerospace, medical devices, and industrial robotics, requires cathode ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/batteries12030082

Developmental robotics: a survey

Max Lungarella, Giorgio Metta B, Rolf Pfeifer, Giulio Sandini • Connection Science (2003)

Developmental robotics is an emerging field located at the intersection of robotics, cognitive science and developmental sciences. This paper elucidates the main reasons and key motivations behind the convergence of fields with seemingly di...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540090310001655110

Quantum Computing

Mr. M. Rajeshkumar Dr. R. Mariappan Mr. E.Janakiraman • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)

Quantum Computing The twenty-first century has witnessed remarkable advancements in computing technologies, transforming every aspect of modern society. As conventional computing systems approach their physical and computational limits, the...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20696699

Quantum computing

Guolin Wu • Routledge eBooks (2025)

Quantum computing operates by manipulating the quantum state of a system to solve problems intractable for classical computing. These problems, previously considered limitations of classical algorithms, have solutions through quantum approa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003677987-6

Universal terminal for cloud quantum computing

Mohammadsadegh Khazali • Scientific Reports (2024)

Abstract To bring the quantum computing capacities to the personal edge devices, the optimum approach is to have simple non-error-corrected personal devices that offload the computational tasks to scalable quantum computers via edge servers...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65899-0

A recent update on development, synthesis methods, properties and application of natural products derived carbon dots

Soumitra Sahana, Anupam Gautam, Rajveer Singh, Shivani Chandel • Natural Products and Bioprospecting (2023)

Abstract Natural resources are practically infinitely abundant in nature, which stimulates scientists to create new materials with inventive uses and minimal environmental impact. Due to the various benefits of natural carbon dots (NCDs) fr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s13659-023-00415-x