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Spatially programmable origami networks enable high-density mechanical computing for autonomous robotics

The authors present a reprogrammable logic cube that performs arithmetic and comparison tasks with high density. Integrated into robotics, it enables autonomous right-angled and curved path planning using reprogrammable half-adder/subtractor logic.

Xinyu Hu
Ting Tan
Zhimiao Yan
ResearchOpen Access20 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-15
General-purpose mechanical computing enabled by origami circuit reconfiguration with robotic addressing and activation

The authors introduce a mechanical programmable gate array that combines bistable origami switches and robotic activation to achieve both programmability and scalability, enabling adaptable computing for robotics and edge applications.

Yinghua Chen
Ting Tan
Zhimiao Yan
ResearchOpen Access25 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
Avian-inspired embodied perception in biohybrid flapping-wing robotics

The adaptable architecture of avian feathers serves as promising inspiration for flapping-wing aircrafts (also known as ornithopters). Here, authors propose a biohybrid mechanoreceptor using natural feathers and piezoelectric materials for precise proprioceptive recognition in flapping-wing systems.

Qian Li
Ting Tan
Zhimiao Yan
ResearchOpen Access22 Oct 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-15
Detection of low-frequency mutations in clinical samples by increasing mutation abundance via the excision of wild-type sequences

DNA mutations occurring at low frequencies can be more easily detected by first excising wild-type DNA strands via the endonuclease deoxyribonuclease I, guided by single-stranded phosphorothioated DNA.

Wei Chen
Haiqi Xu
Meiping Zhao
Research27 Jul 2023
Nature Biomedical Engineering

Volume: 7, P: 1602-1613
A reprogrammable mechanical metamaterial with origami functional-group transformation and ring reconfiguration

Programmability is a key property for multifunctional metamaterials, but it is limited by homo-element. Here, the authors show a mechanical metamaterials with heterogeneous elements, achieving various mechanical behaviours by functional group transformation and ring configuration.

Xinyu Hu
Ting Tan
Zhimiao Yan
ResearchOpen Access23 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-13
DNA polymerase-α regulates the activation of type I interferons through cytosolic RNA:DNA synthesis

The causative mechanism for the immunodeficiency and autoinflammatory disease XLPDR is unknown. Burstein and colleagues show that XLPDR is caused by disruption of POLA1, which encodes a DNA polymerase subunit; this, in turn, leads to dysregulated production of type I interferons.

Petro Starokadomskyy
Terry Gemelli
Ezra Burstein
Research28 Mar 2016
Nature Immunology

Volume: 17, P: 495-504
Mesenchymal Stem Cells Reshape and Provoke Proliferation of Articular Chondrocytes by Paracrine Secretion

Lei Xu
Yuxi Wu
Wen-Song Tan
ResearchOpen Access06 Sept 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-13