New Joint Design to Create a More Natural and Efficient Biped by Giuseppina Gini, Umberto Scarfogliero, Michele Folgheraiter

“…This paper presents a human-oriented approach to design the mechanical architecture and the joint controller for a biped robot. Starting from the analysis of the human lower limbs, we figured out which features of the human legs are fundamental for a correct walking motion, and can be adopted in the mechanical design of a humanoid robot. …”
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USING VOICE COMMANDS TO OBTAIN EXPRESSIVE STATES FOR ANIMATRONIC STRUCTURES by Marian IONESCU

“…This paper presents an experiment that uses voice control applied to animatronic structures as well as a robotic structure. Voice control is applied in order to obtain biomimetic / expressive states through animatronic structures (CHIMPANZEE ALIVE and ELVIS ALIVE), using a interactive protocol with the robotic structure (LOBOT uHand). …”
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An android can show the facial expressions of complex emotions by Alexander Diel, Wataru Sato, Chun-Ting Hsu, Alexander Bäuerle, Martin Teufel, Takashi Minato

“…Abstract Trust and rapport are essential abilities for human–robot interaction. Producing emotional expressions in the robots’ faces is an effective way for that purpose. …”
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Design, Kinematic Optimization, and Evaluation of a Teleoperated System for Middle Ear Microsurgery by Mathieu Miroir, Yann Nguyen, Jérôme Szewczyk, Olivier Sterkers, Alexis Bozorg Grayeli

“…Here, we describe a method to design a teleoperated assistance robotic system dedicated to the middle ear surgery. …”
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Coordinated Compliance Control Method of Five-Axis Redundant Industrial Manipulator Based on Monocular Vision by Hua Cen

“…In order to improve the accuracy of the five-axis redundant industrial robot arm in grasping static objects and shorten the grasping time, a coordinated compliance control method based on a monocular vision for the five-axis redundant industrial robot arm is proposed in this paper. …”
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Dynamics Model Abstraction Scheme Using Radial Basis Functions by Silvia Tolu, Mauricio Vanegas, Rodrigo Agís, Richard Carrillo, Antonio Cañas

“…System dynamics depend on an unobserved external context, for example, work load of a robot manipulator. The dynamics of a robot arm change as it manipulates objects with different physical properties, for example, the mass, shape, or mass distribution. …”
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NPQ-RRT∗: An Improved RRT∗ Approach to Hybrid Path Planning by Zihan Yu, Linying Xiang

“…In recent years, the path planning of robot has been a hot research direction, and multirobot formation has practical application prospect in our life. …”
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EMIKNet: Expanding Multiple-Instance Inverse Kinematics Network for Multiple End-Effector and Multiple Solutions by Youn-Jae Go, Jun Moon

“…Inverse Kinematics (IK) is essential for robot control but suffers from computational complexity as the number of links and end-effectors increases, thereby affecting real-time control accuracy and performance. …”
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Gravity Compensation and Feedback of Ground Reaction Forces for Biped Balance Control by Satoshi Ito, Shingo Nishio, Yuuki Fukumoto, Kojiro Matsushita, Minoru Sasaki

“…This paper considers the balance control of a biped robot under a constant external force or on a sloped ground. …”
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A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation by Guanglong Du, Ping Zhang

“…The safe pipe constructs the safe workspace dynamically for the robot, which makes it possible to detect the potential collision between the robot and the obstacles. …”
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Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux after Puberty by J. Christopher Austin

“…The role of laparoscopic or robotic ureteral reimplantation in these patients is evolving.…”
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Contact Load and Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Analysis of Eccentric Bearings in RV Reducer Considering the Effects of Roller Profile Modification by Xinyue Zhang, Gang Wang, Daqi Wu, Jian Guan, Wenjie Chen

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Using Game Development to Teach Software Architecture by Alf Inge Wang, Bian Wu

“…In previous years, the domain of the software architecture project has been a robot controller for navigating a maze. Robot controller was chosen as the domain for the project, as there exist several papers and descriptions on reference architectures for managing mobile robots. …”
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Multi-Strategy Improved Red-Tailed Hawk Algorithm for Real-Environment Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning by Mingen Wang, Panliang Yuan, Pengfei Hu, Zhengrong Yang, Shuai Ke, Longliang Huang, Pai Zhang

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Hierarchical Task-Parameterized Learning from Demonstration for Collaborative Object Movement by Siyao Hu, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

“…Learning from demonstration (LfD) enables a robot to emulate natural human movement instead of merely executing preprogrammed behaviors. …”
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3D Printed Multi‐Cavity Soft Actuator with Integrated Motion and Sensing Functionalities via Bio‐Inspired Interweaving Foldable Endomysium by Zhonggui Fang, Shaowu Tang, Yinyin Su, Xiaohuang Liu, Sicong Liu, Juan Yi, Zheng Wang, Jian S. Dai

“…Two McFI‐actuator‐driven robots are built: a soft crawling robot with path reconstruction and a narrow‐maneuverable soft gripper with object exteroception, validating the practicality in stand‐alone use of the actuator and the potential for intelligent soft robotic innovation of the McFI approach.…”
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Enhanced Fluid Mixing in Microchannels Using Levitated Magnetic Microrobots: A Numerical Study by Ali Anil Demircali, Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Huseyin Uvet

“…Results indicate that the propeller robot can achieve an MI of up to 98.94% at a 150 μm levitation height and 1500 rpm propeller speed within 3 s. …”
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Estimation of the Centre of Mass From Motion Capture and Force Plate Recordings: A Study on the Elderly by S. Cotton, M. Vanoncini, P. Fraisse, N. Ramdani, E. Demircan, A. P. Murray, T. Keller

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Boundary Stabilization of Underground Multirobot System with Virtual String Constraints by Lingling Su, Xianhua Zheng, Yongshi Song, Shang Feng, Lin Zhang

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A Mathematical and Numerically Integrable Modeling of 3D Object Grasping under Rolling Contacts between Smooth Surfaces by Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida

“…A computable model of grasping and manipulation of a 3D rigid object with arbitrary smooth surfaces by multiple robot fingers with smooth fingertip surfaces is derived under rolling contact constraints between surfaces. …”
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