11 accepted papers
Automated fabric manipulation offers great potential for reducing labor requirements in textile manufacturing and domestic services. Yet, even the basic task of separating a single fabric layer poses substantial challenges for robots. Adhesive-based end-effectors suffer from limited material compati…
Automation in the apparel and textile industry has long been a pursuit. However, accurately locating the surface of a fabric remains a challenge, limiting the automation in sorting, packaging, and other processes. When humans locate clothing, they rely on contact feedback for the exact position of t
Tactile sensors of high spatial resolution can provide rich contact information in terms of accurate contact location and force magnitude for robots. However, achieving a high spatial resolution normally requires a high density of tactile sensing cells (or taxels), which will inevitably lead to crow
Presents corrections to the declaration of equal contribution that was missed in the above named paper.
Bionic robot inspired by creatures in nature attracts attention from researchers due to its effective locomotion mode and high environment adaptability. Despite the recent achievements in bionic research and robotics, the bionic robots are almost simple morphology imitation. While the imitation of f
Coupling the endface of an optical fiber to an integrated optical component is currently a low-throughput and costly manual process in the fabrication of the optical devices. In order to meet the high-volume demand for commercial optoelectronic devices, coupling must be automated. This paper present…
In this work, a light-actuated inchworm-inspired soft robot capable of directional locomotion has been proposed, developed, and characterized. The robot is designed and divided into three parts according to the functions during locomotion, which are the body, front leg, and back leg. The body of inc
Untethered microrobot has been regarded as one of the most powerful tools for performing specific in vitro/vivo tasks, especially magnetic actuated microrobot owing to its biocompatible energy source. However, although numerous design and fabrication technologies of magnetic microrobot have been dev
Copper microwire is an essential metal widely used in micro-electron mechanical systems. Since micro/nano material usually demonstrates unique mechanical properties due to scaling effect, copper microwire mechanical properties need to be investigated for better adhibition. Herein, we propose a nanor…
The helical microstructure has been regarded as one of the essential geometrical shapes widely utilized in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and lab on chip systems. Different manufacture methods for helical microstructures attracted the researchers' attention due to their respective advantages.
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been widely used for characterization and manipulation in micro/nano field. However, existing SEMs can only provide images for samples from one single direction. This limitation sometimes would lead to misleading results. In order to provide multidirectional SE…