Abstract: Most of the humanoid robots are covered with curved thin shells. To have a sensitive shell on the robot, normally we need to add an extra layer of electrodes or sensors. In this paper, we ...

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Jerold Thompson’s mother made the blocks for this quilt from patterns published by The World-Herald in the 1930s. The blocks were in pieces until recently. thompsons Lloyd and Alice Thompson were ...