WiFi-Powered Sensor Integrated into a Smart Glove with a Fully Fabric Antenna for the Human-Machine Interface.

The integration of flexible sensors into human-machine interfaces (HMIs) is in increasing demand for intuitive and effective manipulation. Traditional glove-based HMIs, constrained by nonconformal rigid structures or the need for bulky batteries, face limitations in continuous operation. Addressing this, we introduce yarn-based bend sensors in our smart glove, which are wirelessly powered and harvest energy from a fully textile 5.

Compact conformal tattoo-polymer antenna for on-body wireless power transfer.

This paper presents a 35.0 × 35.0 × 2.

Polarization-insensitive planar patch antenna with large embedded serial capacitance for on-metal tag design.

A polarization-insensitive planar patch antenna, which has a large embedded serial capacitance, is proposed for constructing a metal mountable tag by using merely a single radiator. The proposed antenna structure itself contains two flaps of patches, which are very closely overlapped, for generating a large capacitive reactance for reducing the resonant frequency of the tag. It has been found that the surface currents in the overlapped region are in the reverse direction as the large capacitance is virtually placed in series.

An AI-Assisted and Self-Powered Smart Robotic Gripper Based on Eco-EGaIn Nanocomposite for Pick-and-Place Operation.

High compliance and muscle-alike soft robotic grippers have shown promising performance in addressing the challenges in traditional rigid grippers. Nevertheless, a lack of control feedback (gasping speed and contact force) in a grasping operation can result in undetectable slipping and false positioning. In this study, a pneumatically driven and self-powered soft robotic gripper that can recognize the grabbed object is reported.

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Throat Sensor Using Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) Material.

Throat sensing has received increasing demands in recent years, especially for oropharyngeal treatment applications. The conventional videofluoroscopy (VFS) approach is limited by either exposing the patient to radiation or incurring expensive costs on sophisticated equipment as well as well-trained speech-language pathologists. Here, we propose a smart and non-invasive throat sensor that can be fabricated using an ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) material.

Compact organic liquid dielectric resonator antenna for air pressure sensing using soft material.

For the first time, a flexible and deformable liquid dielectric resonator antenna (LDRA) is proposed for air pressure sensing. The proposed LDRA can be made very compact as it has employed liquidized organic dielectric with high dielectric constant (~ 33) with low loss tangent (~ 0.05).