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Design of a Biomimetic Skin for an Octopus-Inspired Robot – Part II: Development of the Skin Artefact
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In this paper, a skin artefact for an octopus-inspired robot arm, which is designed to elongate 60% of its original length, silicone rubber and knitted nylon sheet were selected to manufacture an artificial skin, due to their higher elastic strain and high flexibility.About:
This article is published in Journal of Bionic Engineering.The article was published on 2011-09-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Artificial skin.read more
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Engineered human skin fabricated using electrospun collagen-PCL blends: morphogenesis and mechanical properties.
TL;DR: Results indicate that minimal additions of PCL can be blended with collagen to produce scaffolds suitable for tissue engineering of human skin, however, the increase in scaffold strength with higher PCL concentrations did not result in significantly stronger ES, indicating that high cell viability and proper development of the epidermis are important factors for developing ES with high strength.
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An overview of the configuration and manipulation of soft robotics for on-orbit servicing
TL;DR: A hybrid configuration and manipulation of space soft robots for future research are proposed based on the current development of soft robotics, and some challenges are discussed.
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Development of Biomimetic Squid-Inspired Suckers
TL;DR: Biomechanical properties of squid suckers were studied to provide inspiration for the development of sucker artefacts for a robotic octopus and the final design of suckers has been implemented to the arm skin prototypes.
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Developing sensorized arm skin for an octopus inspired robot
TL;DR: An integrated skin prototype with embedded deformable sensors and attached suckers developed for the arm of an octopus inspired robot is presented.
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Developing Skin Analogues for a Robotic Octopus
TL;DR: In this article, a new process based on mechanical properties measured from real octopus skin was developed to fabricate a biomimetic skin for an octopus-inspired robot, which was used to cover the robotic arm unit.
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Evaluation of dermal—epidermal skin equivalents (‘composite-skin’) of human keratinocytes in a collagen-glycosaminoglycan matrix (integra™ artificial skin)
TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate the establishment of an effective cell cultivation process which may be suitable for scale-up production of the epidermal component as large-scale composite-skin grafts.
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Elastic cartilage engineering using novel scaffold architectures in combination with a biomimetic cell carrier.
TL;DR: These studies demonstrated the potential of such scaffold/hydrogel/cell constructs to support chondrogenesis in vivo, but showed that even mechanically stable scaffolds do not allow regeneration of a large mass of structural and functional cartilage within a matrix architecture seeded with 2D passaged chondrocytes in combination with a cell biomimetic carrier.
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Slicing of soft flexible solids with industrial applications
Anthony G. Atkins,Xianzhong Xu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of the slice/push ratio (slice tangential speed to blade edge normal speed) on the cutting forces of a commercial food cutting device having a rotating spiral plan form blade.
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Toughness anisotropy in feather keratin
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Design of a Biomimetic Skin for an Octopus-Inspired Robot – Part I: Characterising Octopus Skin
TL;DR: In this paper, the Young's modulus, ultimate stress, failure strain and fracture toughness of octopus skin were measured under quasi-static and scissor cutting conditions to measure the in-plane material properties.