Force control enables hands-on teaching and physical collaboration, with the potential to improve ergonomics flexibility of automation. Established methods for design compliance, impedance control, collision response can achieve free-space stability acceptable peak contact force on lightweight, lower payload robots. Scaling collaboration higher payloads allow new applications, but introduces ch...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a single session of manual circumlaryngeal therapy on the vocal characteristics of future elite vocal performers (music students). STUDY DESIGN A pretest/post-test control group design was used. METHODS Sixteen music students were randomly divided in an experimental and control group. The experimental group rec...