In January 2011, the Memorial Bridge connecting Portsmouth, N.H., and Kittery, Maine, was permanently closed after 88 years of service. Although anticipated, the closure severely disrupted lives on ...

For our final design of an optimized acrylic truss structure, we opted to maximize the maximum load to cost ratio. Our target was a max theoretical load of 50 oz and a load-cost ratio of 0.20. This is ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel truss-shaped variable-stiffness deployable robotic grasper to grasp large unknown objects, the grasper comprises a series of basic modules and has the advantages ...