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Design and Computational Modeling of a Modular, Compliant Robotic Assembly for Human Lumbar Unit and Spinal Cord Assistance by Agarwal, Gunjan, Robertson, Matthew A., Sonar, Harshal, Paik, Jamie

“…Wearable soft robotic systems are enabling safer human-robot interaction and are proving to be instrumental for biomedical rehabilitation. In this manuscript,…”
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RoboScallop: A Bivalve Inspired Swimming Robot by Robertson, Matthew A., Efremov, Filip, Paik, Jamie

“…Underwater swimming robots permit remote access to over 70% of the Earth's surface that is covered in water for a variety of scientific, environmental,…”
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Soft pneumatic actuator-driven origami-inspired modular robotic “pneumagami” by Robertson, Matthew A, Kara, Ozdemir Can, Paik, Jamie

“…This article presents a new modular robotic platform for enabling reconfigurable, actively controlled, high-degree-of-freedom (high-DoF) systems with compact…”
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Stem respiration in tropical forests along an elevation gradient in the Amazon and Andes by ROBERTSON, AMANDA L, MALHI, YADVINDER, FARFAN‐AMEZQUITA, FILIO, ARAGÃO, LUIZ EDUARDO O.C, SILVA ESPEJO, JAVIER EDUARDO, ROBERTSON, MATTHEW A

“…Autotrophic respiration involves the use of fixed carbon by plants for their own metabolism, resulting in the release of carbon dioxide as a by‐product. Little…”
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A Compact Modular Soft Surface With Reconfigurable Shape and Stiffness by Robertson, Matthew A., Murakami, Masato, Felt, Wyatt, Paik, Jamie

“…A variety of reconfigurable surface devices, utilizing large numbers of actuated physical pixels to produce discretized three-dimensional contours, have been…”
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Author Correction: Design and Computational Modeling of a Modular, Compliant Robotic Assembly for Human Lumbar Unit and Spinal Cord Assistance by Agarwal, Gunjan, Robertson, Matthew A., Sonar, Harshal, Paik, Jamie

“…A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper…”
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Practical control methods for vacuum driven soft actuator modules by Robertson, Matthew A., Paik, Jamie

“…Vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuator (V-SPA) Modules have been described to afford advantages for rapid development of reconfigurable, multi-DoF soft…”
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Discharge Readiness after Robotic and Laparoscopic Hysterectomy by DeStephano, Christopher C., Gajarawala, Shilpa P., Espinal, Mariana, Heckman, Michael G., Vargas, Emily R., Robertson, Matthew A.

“…To evaluate which factors may be predictive of patient readiness of discharge after robotic and laparoscopic hysterectomy. A prospective cohort study (Canadian…”
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Modeling vacuum bellows soft pneumatic actuators with optimal mechanical performance by Felt, Wyatt, Robertson, Matthew A., Paik, Jamie

“…This paper presents the concept and model of "Vacuum Bellows," a cylindrical membrane-reinforced contractile vacuum soft pneumatic actuator (V-SPAs). These…”
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Low-inertia vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator coil characterization and design methodology by Robertson, Matthew A., Paik, Jamie

“…Recently developed soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) powered by negative pressure have demonstrated great potential in the future of soft robotics for their high…”
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Stem respiration in tropical forests along an elevation gradient in the Amazon and Andes : Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and ecology and global change research by ROBERTSON, Amanda L, MALHI, Yadvinder, FARFAN-AMEZQUITA, Filio, ARAGAO, Luiz Eduardo O. C, SILVA ESPEJO, Javier Eduardo, ROBERTSON, Matthew A

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Bi-modal control of vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuators with embedded liquid metal-based strain sensitive skin by Robertson, Matthew A., Dejace, Laurent, Lacour, Stephanie P., Paik, Jamie

“…Soft robotic systems are composed of active and passively deformable structures which are intrinsically compliant, flexible, and elastic. Although these…”
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