Abstract: Contact dynamics critically influence the sim-to-real performance of deformable tissue retraction—a representative contact-rich manipulation task in robotic surgery. The uncertainty in ...

Abstract: It is difficult to ensure tracking performance even for general nonlinear systems under the condition that only intermittent output signals are used. This article studies the problem of ...

On November 11, 2025, in Hunan, China, @Hēibāngbōluó shared a video of a parrot interacting with a floor-shaking device. In ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...