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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Research Trends and Future Perspectives in Marine Biomimicking Robotics.

Jacopo Aguzzi, Corrado Costa, Marcello Calisti, Valerio Funari, Sergio Stefanni, Roberto Danovaro, Helena I Gomes, Fabrizio Vecchi, Lewis R Dartnell, Peter Weiss and 3 more

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Jacopo AguzziDepartment of Renewable Marine Resources, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1484-8219
Corrado CostaCentro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria (CREA), 00015 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3711-1399
Marcello CalistiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSAA), 56127 Pisa, Italy.
Valerio FunariStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), 80122 Naples, Italy.
Sergio StefanniStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), 80122 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9477-0062
Roberto DanovaroStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), 80122 Naples, Italy.
Helena I GomesFaculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Fabrizio VecchiStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), 80122 Naples, Italy.
Lewis R DartnellSchool of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK.
Peter WeissSpartan Space, 13275 Marseille, France.
Kathrin NowakCompagnie Maritime d'Expertises (COMEX), 13275 Marseille, France.
Damianos ChatzievangelouDepartment of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University, 28759 Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7512-5105
Simone MariniConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), 19032 La Spezia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0665-7815

Funding

H2020 European Research Council H2020-MG-2018-2019-2020 n.824348Horizon 2020 871153Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades TEC2017-87861-R
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechatronic and soft robotics are taking inspiration from the animal kingdom to create new high-performance robots. Here, we focused on marine biomimetic research and used innovative bibliographic statistics tools, to highlight established and emerging knowledge domains. A total of 6980 scientific publications retrieved from the Scopus database (1950-2020), evidencing a sharp research increase in 2003-2004. Clustering analysis of countries collaborations showed two major Asian-North America and European clusters. Three significant areas appeared: (i) energy provision, whose advancement mainly relies on microbial fuel cells, (ii) biomaterials for not yet fully operational soft-robotic solutions; and finally (iii), design and control, chiefly oriented to locomotor designs. In this scenario, marine biomimicking robotics still lacks solutions for the long-lasting energy provision, which presently hinders operation autonomy. In the research environment, identifying natural processes by which living organisms obtain energy is thus urgent to sustain energy-demanding tasks while, at the same time, the natural designs must increasingly inform to optimize energy consumption.

Indexed as

bibliographic statisticsbiomaterialsenergy provisionlocomotor designsmarine biomimeticsoptimal energy consumption

Identifiers

PMID34072452
PMCPMC8198061

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