Design and Fabrication of a Novel Teardrop-Shaped Magnetically Guided Hollow Robot for Potential Capsule Application
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wireless capsule robot technology is promising because it is minimally invasive. Magnetically guided capsule robots, in particular, have garnered significant attention because they allow for noninvasive or less invasive remote control of endoscopes within the body. However, miniaturizing capsule robots remains a challenge, especially for applications within the urinary system. This article proposed a novel teardrop-shaped magnetically guided capsule robot, which has several salient features. First, a coupled design strategy was implemented for the actuator and body, reducing the overall size of the device. Second, a bio-inspired teardrop shape was utilized in the design to minimize resistance (RES) as the robot moves within the body, with the design process supported by the finite element analysis, regression model, and the Taguchi robust design technique. Third, a special 3-D printing method was employed to fabricate a prototype of the robot, taking advantage of its capability to print micro/nanometer features. An in vitro experiment was conducted to validate the effectiveness and potential of the capsule robot system.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".