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Robots and Robotics in Nursing

Gil Platon Soriano, Yuko Yasuhara, Hirokazu Ito, Kazuyuki Matsumoto et al. • Healthcare (2022)

Technological advancements have led to the use of robots as prospective partners to complement understaffing and deliver effective care to patients. This article discusses relevant concepts on robots from the perspective of nursing theories...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081571 PMC: 9407759

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

Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis for UWSNs with Priority Scheduling Based on Access Probability and Wakeup Threshold

Ning Li, Zhiyu Xiang, Liang Feng, Zhiqiang Gao et al. • Sensors (2025)

As advancements in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology unfold, the role of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is becoming increasingly pivotal. However, the high energy consumption in these networks can significantly red...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s25020570

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

Innovations in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a review of clinical evidence and patient-reported outcomes for ExoTMS

David Pánek, Václav Gerla, Michelle Dees, Yael Halaas et al. • Frontiers in Psychiatry (2026)

IntroductionTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique with demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of multiple psychiatric and neurological disorders. ExoTMS represents an evolution in TMS system des...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1850212

Cascaded Dual-Observer-Based Decoupled Estimation of Mass and Track Gradient for Permanent-Magnet-Driven Electric Monorail Cranes

Qijing Qin, Ziming Kou, Shaokai Kou, Guijun Gao et al. • Actuators (2026)

Precise data regarding the overall mass of the machinery and the gradient of the track are crucial for optimizing the control of monorail cranes and enhancing energy efficiency. Within the context of electric monorail cranes (EMCs), accurat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/act15090479

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

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

Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

Kerstin Dautenhahn • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (2007)

Social intelligence in robots has a quite recent history in artificial intelligence and robotics. However, it has become increasingly apparent that social and interactive skills are necessary requirements in many application areas and conte...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.2004 PMC: 2346526

Robot Motion: Planning and Control

Michale Brady, John M. Hollerbach, T. Johnson, Matthew T. Mason et al. (1983)

From the Publisher: The present surge of interest in robotics can be expected to continue through the 1980s. Major research efforts are springing up throughout industry and in the universities. Senior and graduate level courses are being d...

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Robots at Work

Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels • The Review of Economics and Statistics (2018)

We analyze for the first time the economic contributions of modern industrial robots, which are flexible, versatile, and autonomous machines. We use novel panel data on robot adoption within industries in seventeen countries from 1993 to 20...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00754

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

A Novel Passive Implantable Differential Mechanism to Restore Individuated Finger Flexion during Grasping following Tendon Transfer Surgery: A Pilot Study

Suraj Chakravarthi Raja, Won Suk You, Kian Jalaleddini, Justin C. Casebier et al. • Applied Sciences (2023)

Tendon transfer surgery is often used to restore hand grasp function following high median-ulnar nerve palsy. This surgery typically reroutes and sutures the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) muscle to all four flexor digi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app13095804