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Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

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Biomimetic retinas with a wide field of view and high resolution are in demand for neuroprosthetics and robot vision. Conventional neural prostheses are manufactured outside the application area and implanted as a complete device using invasive surgery. He ...

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Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target

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Development and control of interactive reconfigurable robotic systems

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Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

This project is carried out under the partnership between LMTS and LAI to develop an autonomous micro-robot called DE-Ansect. This low power micro-robot moves thanks to dielectric elastomere actuators. For now the robot follows a black line on the ground. ...

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Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

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This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of MRR systems have been presented to date, and these robots promise to be ...

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Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target

Development and control of interactive reconfigurable robotic systems

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Development and control of interactive reconfigurable robotic systems

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms