Our robotic platforms include mechanical adaptations and the development of an embedded software architecture.
Thus, this skeleton from medieval Rhodes presenting lesions with morphological and distributional specificity indicative of MTSS, in association with mechanical adaptation to loading and osteoarthritis lesions, introduces a novel diagnosis in paleopathology, which is also of interest in modern orthopedics.
Three criterions were considered: minimizing the speed ripple of the engine, maximizing the mechanical reactive power (mechanical impedance adaptation) and maximizing the active electric power for energy harvesting.
Few quantitative data are available on the development of architecture and mechanical adaptation in juvenile trabecular bone.
Nevertheless, RARs and SARs can be differentiated by comparing their individual mechanical activation profiles, mechanical adaptation properties, central termination patterns and the reflexes that each precipitate (Table 1).
Mechanical adaptation of bone is a cellular process and needs a biological system that senses the mechanical loading.
Tissues are intrinsically non-linear, anisotropic, viscoelastic, and undergo a process of mechanical adaptation (preconditioning).
Given the results of our companion studies showing the mechanical adaptation of stem cells to their dynamic local milieu and these current studies demonstrating the effect of cells themselves on local flow fields, it appears that stem cells may ultimately exhibit the capacity to modulate their own environment by altering their structure, which redistributes forces at cell-environment interfaces.
Although the presented description of biological phenomena occurring in growing tissues is certainly incomplete, it includes a number of processes which are definitely relevant when the observed mechanical adaptation takes place.
Hence, taking into context our companion study showing the mechanical adaptation of stem cells to their dynamic local milieu [10], it appears that stem cells may ultimately exhibit the capacity to modulate their own environment.
