Drawing on evidence on the home furnishing sectors in Italy during the XX century, the aim is to understand the instituted processes that facilitated the translation of design know-how from being project-specific to becoming relevant to broader remits. The paper contributes to the debate on...

This paper focusses on two active intrinsically safe medical robots – Hippocrate and DERMAROB – designed by the LIRMM laboratory and manufactured by SINTERS. For both of them, we discuss design and control issues.

The popularity of tiny houses is increasing, but the technical details are rarely covered. Therefore, this study examines the structural, stability, weight, and thermal requirements of tiny houses. A configurable SolidWorks model was created, and the location and quantity of structural supports...