Multi-environment robotic transitions through adaptive morphogenesis

R Baines, SK Patiballa, J Booth, L Ramirez, T Sipple… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The current proliferation of mobile robots spans ecological monitoring, warehouse
management and extreme environment exploration, to an individual consumer's home …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

Design, actuation, and functionalization of untethered soft magnetic robots with life-like motions: A review

J Miao, S Sun - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots have demonstrated superior flexibility and functionality than conventional rigid
robots. These versatile devices can respond to a wide range of external stimuli (including …

The role of hydrodynamics in collective motions of fish schools and bioinspired underwater robots

H Ko, G Lauder, R Nagpal - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collective behaviour defines the lives of many animal species on the Earth. Underwater
swarms span several orders of magnitude in size, from coral larvae and krill to tunas and …

An underwater bionic crab soft robot with multidirectional controllable motion ability

Q Li, T Chen, Y Chen, Z Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots driven by stimuli-responsive materials have unique advantages over
conventional rigid robots, especially in terms of high adaptability for underwater exploration …

A magnetically controlled soft miniature robotic fish with a flexible skeleton inspired by zebrafish

C Huang, Z Lai, L Zhang, X Wu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The untethered miniature swimming robot actuation and control is difficult as the robot size
becomes smaller, due to limitations of feasible miniaturized on-board components. Nature …

[HTML][HTML] Mudskipper-inspired amphibious robotic fish enhances locomotion performance by pectoral-caudal fins coordination

Z Lin, W Zheng, J Zhang, W Ou, C Yang… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2023 - cell.com
Amphibious robots face challenges in efficiently combining locomotion strategies and
coordinating propulsive mechanisms, hindering their locomotion performance similar to …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative and collaborative study of the hydrodynamics of two swimming modes applicable to dolphins

D Xia, Z Li, M Lei, H Yan, Z Zhou - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a hydrodynamics study that examines the comparison and collaboration
of two swimming modes relevant to the universality of dolphins. This study utilizes a three …

Larger wavelengths suit hydrodynamics of carangiform swimmers

MSU Khalid, J Wang, I Akhtar, H Dong, M Liu… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The wavelength of undulatory kinematics of fish is an important parameter to determine their
hydrodynamic performance. This study focuses on numerical examination of this feature by …

Underwater variable frequency vibrating dipole detection of artificial lateral line based on the joint time-frequency analysis

Y Liu, Q Hu, Q Yang, T Fu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022 - Elsevier
Inspired by the lateral line system (LLS) of fish, an underwater pressure sensor array, aka,
artificial lateral line system (ALLS) was proposed for underwater perception. The Fourier …