Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent study, ...

(a) The structure and features of the actuation unit, the high-integration module, and the reconfigurable robots with different configurations: (a-i) the structure of the actuation unit; (a-ii) the ...

(Nanowerk News) Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In ...

Piezoelectric actuators exploit the inverse piezoelectric effect to convert electrical signals into mechanical displacement with nanometre-scale resolution, high bandwidth and immunity to ...

This video shows control of the rotation and translation of the needle placement robot inside MRI. While this is being done, the team can visualize (in real-time — 2.5Hz) the needle insertion ...