Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

VA Webster-Wood, M Guix, NW Xu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

Wind dispersal of battery-free wireless devices

V Iyer, H Gaensbauer, TL Daniel, S Gollakota - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Plants cover a large fraction of the Earth's land mass despite most species having limited to
no mobility. To transport their propagules, many plants have evolved mechanisms to …

OGAS: Omni-directional Glider Assisted Scheme for autonomous deployment of sensor nodes in open area wireless sensor network

V Sharma, S Vats, D Arora, K Singh, AS Prabuwono… - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is built with the wireless interconnection of Sensor
Nodes (SNs) generally deployed to monitor the changes within the environment of hostile …

Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers

K Johnson, V Arroyos, A Ferran, R Villanueva, D Yin… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Using wind to disperse microfliers that fall like seeds and leaves can help automate large-
scale sensor deployments. Here, we present battery-free microfliers that can change shape …

Reusing delivery drones for urban crowdsensing

C **ang, Y Zhou, H Dai, Y Qu, S He… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the increasing number and massive coverage, delivery drones, equipped with
various sensors, have demonstrated significant but unexplored potentials for large-scale …

Intermittently-powered bluetooth that works

J De Winkel, H Tang, P Pawełczak - Proceedings of the 20th Annual …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present an architecture for intermittently-powered wireless communication systems that
does not require any changes to the official protocol specification. Our core idea is to save …

MilliSign: MmWave-based passive signs for guiding UAVs in poor visibility conditions

T Iizuka, T Sasatani, T Nakamura, N Kosaka… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents MilliSign, a guidance system based on a batteryless tag to support
unmanned aerial vehicles in all-weather conditions. Conventional batteryless guidance …

Millimobile: An autonomous battery-free wireless microrobot

K Johnson, Z Englhardt, V Arroyos, D Yin… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present MilliMobile: a first of its kind battery-free autonomous robot capable of operating
on harvested solar and RF power. We challenge the conventional assumption that motion …

[PDF][PDF] Detection and description of four Vespa mandarinia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) nests in western North America

C Looney, B Carman, J Cena, C Cichorz… - Journal of …, 2023 - jhr.pensoft.net
Vespa mandarinia Smith 1852 is a semi-specialized predator of other social Hymenoptera
and one of the two largest species of Vespa. Several individuals of this predatory wasp were …

Sharing instant delivery UAVs for crowdsensing: A data-driven performance study

J Gao, Y Pan, X Zhang, Q Han, Y Hu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in demand for instant deliveries, such
as rapid delivery of takeaway food and medicine. Many logistics companies are planning to …