Soft robotic actuators are highly flexible, compliant, dexterous, and lightweight alternatives that can potentially replace conventional rigid in various human-centric applications. This research aims to develop a soft actuator leverages body movements mimic the function of human fingers for gripping grasping tasks. Unlike predominantly used chamber-based actuation, this study utilizes made fro...

Many traumatic upper body injuries to deminers are caused by debris generated by anti-personnel (AP) blast mines. This study better characterizes the soil ejecta threat from buried anti-personnel mines and provides an improved evaluation of light upper body protection systems by relating the threat to resultant damage to soft tissue simulants. For each tested soil type, ejecta characterization ...

Although rare, synovial sarcoma is the most common malignant non-rhabdomyosarcomatous soft tissue sarcoma in children and adolescents. Synovial sarcoma typically involves the soft tissues of the extremities, especially near large joints, but it can occur anywhere in the body in locations far from joint spaces. Although this tumor typically affects adults in their fourth decade of life, nearly h...