The current smallest self-contained modular robot uses a shape memory alloy, which is inherently inefficient, slow and difficult to control. We present the design, fabrication and demonstration of a module based on dielectric elastomer actuation. The module uses a pair of bowtie dielectric elastomer actuators in an agonist-antagonist configuration and is seven times smaller than previously demo...

AbstractUnderstanding the evolution of dynamic properties sand subjected to induced anisotropy is indispensable for an accurate seismic analysis geostructures. In this study, several bender e...

The main goal of this paper is to propose a framework for providing an episodic long-term memory for a robot, which includes methods for acquiring, storing, updating, managing and using episodic information. This will give a robot the ability to incorporate past experiences when interacting with humans, so that the data that the robot learns transcends each session, and thus gives continuity to...

We report a 7-year-old boy with progressive, early onset somatic and cranial muscle weakness associated with external ophthalmoplegia, facial weakness, type I fibre hypotrophy and myofibril degeneration. We separate this condition from congenital fibre type disproportion because of the facial weakness, ophthalmoplegia, central nucleation, and lysis in type I fibres. The case, which is similar t...

K. Rutz, 1 M. Bender, 1 T. Bürvenich, 1 T. Schilling, 1 P.-G. Reinhard, 2,3 J. A. Maruhn, 1,3 and W. Greiner 1,3 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt Robert-Mayer-Strasse 10, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen Staudtstrasse 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany Joint Institute for Heavy-Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. O. B...