Conventionally, engineers have employed rigid materials to fabricate precise, predictable
robotic systems, which are easily modelled as rigid members connected at discrete joints …

Objective: The aim of this review was to summarize major topics in artificial intelligence (AI),
including their applications and limitations in surgery. This paper reviews the key …

In this review, we provide an overview of emerging trends and challenges in the field of
intelligent and autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. Recent advances in the field of …

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and
mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory …

This paper describes a distributed, linear-time algorithm for localizing sensor network nodes
in the presence of range measurement noise and demonstrates the algorithm on a physical …

Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific
shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact …

In this work we describe an autonomous soft-bodied robot that is both self-contained and
capable of rapid, continuum-body motion. We detail the design, modeling, fabrication, and …

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for an accurate and reliable autonomous driving system.
Recent approaches are based on point-level fusion: augmenting the LiDAR point cloud with …

Ride-sharing services are transforming urban mobility by providing timely and convenient
transportation to anybody, anywhere, and anytime. These services present enormous …

The field of modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems addresses the design, fabrication,
motion planning, and control of autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology …