Continuously-deformable and stiffness-tunable soft manipulator achieving unmanned COVID-19 pandemic sampling.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, COVID-19 has spread across the whole world, and manpowered collection of pharyngeal samples undoubtedly increases the possibility of cross-infections. In this article, based on our previous fabricated soft manipulator (Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2, 100600), we performed the COVID-19 sampling on real human volunteers by exploiting a pre-programmed unmanned system. The unmanned sampling system mainly includes a soft manipulator and a rigid motion platform, which are adjusted by pneumatic control box and the motor control modules, respectively. Drawn on the lead-through teaching method, the unmanned sampling of COVID-19 is realized by recording the applied pressure in soft manipulator and the feed motion of rigid platform. This research provides a potential a

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925196 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature