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Cubic marine robotics
Modular robotics offers design flexibility that could enable the scale-up of robotic systems for marine applications. We have developed simple repeating cubic modular components that can be assembled and recon...
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Open AccessBioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration
The deep ocean, Earth’s untouched expanse, presents immense challenges for exploration due to its extreme pressure, temperature, and darkness. Unlike traditional marine robots that require specialized metallic...
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Open AccessAnalysis of Heading Stability due to Interactions between Pectoral and Caudal Fins in Robotic Boxfish Locomotion
Investigating the interaction between fins can guide the design and enhance the performance of robotic fish. In this paper, we take boxfish as the bionic object and discuss the effect of coupling motion gaits ...
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Open AccessHuman umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells deliver exogenous miR-26a-5p via exosomes to inhibit nucleus pulposus cell pyroptosis through METTL14/NLRP3
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is the breakdown of the discs supporting the vertebrae. It is one of the most frequent causes of back pain worldwide. Currently, the clinical interventions for IVDD are ...
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Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench
The deep sea remains the largest unknown territory on Earth because it is so difficult to explore1–4. Owing to the extremely high pressure in the deep sea, rigid vessels5–7 and pressure-compensation systems8–10 a...
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Open AccessA single-cell survey of cellular hierarchy in acute myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a fatal hematopoietic malignancy and has a prognosis that varies with its genetic complexity. However, there has been no appropriate integrative analysis on the hierarchy of dif...
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Open AccessReview of Soft Linear Actuator and the Design of a Dielectric Elastomer Linear Actuator
Natural muscle provides excellent motilities for animals. As the basic unit of the muscle system, the skeletal muscle fibers function as a soft linear actuator. Inspired by the muscle fibers, researchers have ...
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Experimental study on pure-shear-like cyclic deformation of VHB 4910 dielectric elastomer
The cyclic deformation of VHB 4910 dielectric elastomer is experimentally investigated by performing a series of strain-controlled and stress-controlled pure-shear-like cyclic tests at room temperature. In the...
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Open AccessA soft artificial muscle driven robot with reinforcement learning
Soft robots driven by stimuli-responsive materials have their own unique advantages over traditional rigid robots such as large actuation, light weight, good flexibility and biocompatibility. However, the larg...
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X-Mechanics—An endless frontier
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that mechanics is a relatively mature subject, the new manifestation of mechanics in an extended or crossed form is unfolding. Mechanics is now powering all subjects, fro...
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Expansive open-door laminoplasty versus laminectomy and instrumented fusion for cases with cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and straight lordosis
To identify whether expansive open-door laminoplasty (Lam) is more appropriate than laminectomy and instrumented fusion (LIF) for cases with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) and strai...
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The application of a new type of titanium mesh cage in hybrid anterior decompression and fusion technique for the treatment of continuously three-level cervical spondylotic myelopathy
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a new type of titanium mesh cage (NTMC) in hybrid anterior decompression and fusion method (HDF) in treating continuously three-level cervical spondylotic myelopathy (TCSM).
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Groundwater-derived land subsidence in the North China Plain
Land subsidence usually bears strong relationship to abstraction of underground fluid. Land subsidence occurs commonly in the North China Plain (NCP) and has become a major environmental factor hindering regio...
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Rate Dependent Stress-Stretch Relation of Dielectric Elastomers Subjected to Pure Shear Like Loading and Electric Field
The performance of dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers is significantly affected by viscoelastic relaxation-induced electromechanical dissipations. This paper presents an experimental study to obtain the rat...
