W01 / 2019 · full textFinding. MOF-303 device: 0.7 L/kg/day Mojave, 1.3 L/kg/day indoor 32% RH; thin-layer kinetics did not survive unchanged in a 0.433 kg cartridge.
Design use. Require whole-device collection and cartridge mass measurements; MOF-303 comparison remains separate.
Boundary. Different material and geometry from proposed Z02 cassette; compressor-based condenser, not zero-electric water. Main article read; supporting information not independently audited.
W02 / 2024 · full textFinding. AQSOA-Z02 thin conductive-fin apparatus measured at about 200 mL bed volume and 10.85 g sorbent; thermal/mass-transfer model optimizes fin geometry.
Design use. Choose a named reference sorbent and test thin coatings, gap and heat conduction together.
Boundary. Approximately 1.3 L/day from an optimized 1 L bed is modeled scale-up, not a measured field appliance. No transfer of its yield to this design.
W03 / 2024 · full textFinding. Indexed publisher full-text methods describe MIL-101(Cr) on heat exchangers with heat-pump cooling/heating; field collection about 990 mL/day using 100 g MOF and 122 W system power.
Design use. Optional active thermal dock must meter compressor, pumps and fans, not call cooling free.
Boundary. Read indexed full-text extracts; direct publisher fetch returned 403; supplementary data not audited. This is not Z02 performance. 122 W continuous implies about 2.96 kWh/L for that reported day.
W04 / 2017 · full textFinding. MOF-801 proof of concept established solar-driven thermal swing and condensation from low-humidity air.
Design use. Separate capture, regeneration, vapor concentration and heat rejection in the explanation.
Boundary. Early proof of concept; headline material-normalized potential is not a modern complete-appliance guarantee.
W05 / 2018 · full textFinding. Arizona MOF-801 prototype collected about 100 g water/kg sorbent per day-and-night cycle using natural cooling and sunlight.
Design use. Budget release and collection losses separately and retain night operation as a real strategy.
Boundary. Single-cycle field apparatus, not continuous household supply. Main article read; no lifetime product certification inferred.
W06 / 2025 · abstractFinding. Seven-day Death Valley trial reported 57–161.5 mL/day from a vertical origami hydrogel arrangement using 0.5 m² of gel.
Design use. Origami can improve packing, exposure and service form factor without inventing water yield.
Boundary. Publisher abstract and MIT institutional description inspected; article methods inaccessible through publisher redirect. Small daily volume is not household autonomy.
W07 / 2025 · full textFinding. Piezoelectric extraction of hygroscopic gel water offers a non-evaporative route; average reported extraction energy 0.535 MJ/kg over repeated tests at 75% RH.
Design use. A separate instrumented nonpotable acoustic tile experiment, not the baseline desert yield claim.
Boundary. Extraction-stage energy is not all-process energy. Centimeter-scale samples, adsorption time, salt carryover and actuator isolation prevent direct potable-appliance extrapolation.
W08 / 2024 · full textFinding. Moving gel between adsorption and solar regeneration demonstrates continuous material cycling and environmental energy integration.
Design use. Prefer fixed cassettes first; compare any moving belt against seal wear, total collector area and power.
Boundary. Publisher indexed full-text sections inspected, not all supplementary methods. Reported area-normalized productivity uses desorption area, not whole footprint; concentrated sunlight has a collection-area burden.
W09 / 2022 · abstractFinding. Thermodynamic comparison identifies context-dependent niches for sorption and important condenser/vacuum-device efficiencies.
Design use. Compare climates using absolute moisture and dew point before claiming universal superiority.
Boundary. Institutional abstract inspected, not full derivations; reversible limits are not device SEC.
W10 / 2022 · abstractFinding. Temperature dependence of adsorption changes attainable water/energy trade-offs.
Design use. Do not derive a Z02 output curve from RH alone.
Boundary. Abstract via scientific discovery; author repository fetch rate-limited. No equation or measured performance copied.
W11 / 2023 · full textFinding. Three Ni2Cl2(BTDD) modules alternating adsorption/regeneration demonstrated 2.11 L/kg/day with natural-convection condensation; plates used compartmentalized powder with PTFE cover.
Design use. Select bed count from measured adsorption/regeneration times; accessible modular cassettes and external condenser.
Boundary. Different chemistry, bed count and conditions; cannot assert our two beds produce continuously or inherit its output. Main author manuscript read, not supplementary videos.
W12 / 2010 · official documentationFinding. Mitsubishi describes Japanese industrial development of zeolite-based water adsorbents and low-temperature thermal applications.
Design use. Ground the Japanese heat-pump/sorption connection in industrial precedent, not aesthetic association.
Boundary. Historical announcement, not a current stock, price, exact Z02 regeneration specification or drinking-water approval.
W13 / 2023 · official documentationFinding. Risk-based management distinguishes source hazards, control measures, operational monitoring and verification.
Design use. Default-to-reject liquid train; independent quality verification before any human-use release.
Boundary. General supplier framework, not certification of AWH or a substitute for jurisdiction-specific assessment.
W14 / 2006 · official documentationFinding. UV performance requires appropriate validation and monitoring of operating envelope, flow and UV transmission.
Design use. UV bypass lockout and flow/UV-intensity interlocks; never infer potability from a glowing lamp.
Boundary. Official technical manual, not present-day legal approval of this small device; UV does not remove dissolved contaminants.
W15 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Ambient-duct RH and temperature measurement is commercially implementable with a documented digital sensor family.
Design use. Pair inlet/outlet RH-T with bed thermocouples and protected high-temperature vapor measurement.
Boundary. Catalog checked in 2026; accuracy depends on operating conditions and calibration. An ambient sensor is not a qualified hot-condensing-vapor probe.
W16 / 2024 · abstractFinding. Thermoelectric heat-flux control is a demonstrated research route to coordinate adsorption cooling and desorption heating.
Design use. Compare active thermal alternatives using whole-system electrical meters and rejected heat, not small packaging alone.
Boundary. Abstract inspected; no system efficiency inherited. Peltier compactness does not imply lower electricity use than a compressor.
F01 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Magnetic tool attachment combines mechanical, fluid and electrical interfaces.
Design use. An open reference for a visible universal tool dock, not a copied product.
Boundary. Versioned hardware details differ; the mount is not a certified hygienic connector.
F02 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Tool slots have taught Cartesian locations, enabling repeatable docking.
Design use. Store approach, engagement and retract poses rather than asking an agent to invent motion.
Boundary. A taught location does not prove collision-free operation or biological perception.
F03 / 2015 · full textFinding. A Japanese conveyor-robot plant factory drained trays before transfer after observing spill problems; the experiment covered a bounded 15-day cultivation interval.
Design use. Drain-confirmed movement and simple Cartesian handling are central design principles.
Boundary. Its nursery, cleaning and maintenance were not demonstrated as an entirely labor-free closed lifecycle.
F04 / 2025 · abstractFinding. A linked blade-and-holding-finger mechanism reported separate cutting and holding performance.
Design use. Combine retention and cutting while instrumenting them as independent outcomes.
Boundary. Only the publisher abstract was inspected; component success is not complete harvest success.
F05 / 2026 · abstractFinding. The constrained prototype reported 94% harvesting success and materially different push-cut and pull-cut forces.
Design use. Use a supported push-cut and capture geometry; measure bruising and failures rather than transplanting published settings.
Boundary. Publisher abstract and accessible sections, not the entire experimental methods, were inspected; geometry is crop specific.
F06 / 2026 · full textFinding. The vision-guided harvesting experiment reported 94.4% target reaching but only 86.1% complete harvesting across 144 attempts.
Design use. Separate perception, approach, cut, retention and delivery; retain a deterministic safety supervisor.
Boundary. A very recent preprint, not established field reliability or evidence of self-sustaining autonomy.
F07 / 2026 · full textFinding. Chamfered geometric lead-ins and a motor-driven cam lock enabled a self-aligning modular tool interface.
Design use. Passive alignment should precede positive lock confirmation, reducing dependence on perfect vision.
Boundary. Small repeated trials and a tool-pick demonstration do not establish industrial wear or hygienic performance.
F08 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Industrial tool changing uses explicit lock/unlock sensing and fail-safe mechanical retention.
Design use. Separate geometric seating, retention and utility confirmation in the docking transaction.
Boundary. This larger industrial product is not the proposed small farm tool and is not a food-contact qualification.
F09 / 1988 · full textFinding. The apparatus combined thermal treatment with heat recovery; pathogen treatment depends on temperature, exposure and solution conditions.
Design use. Treat disinfection as a measurable process with hold time and energy, not a glowing UV icon.
Boundary. The historical pathogen experiments are not a universal operating prescription or food-safety validation.
F10 / 2020 · full textFinding. A 12.5 m² Antarctic greenhouse produced diverse fresh crops over a nine-month campaign.
Design use. Model a complete crop campaign and distinguish fresh produce from staple calories.
Boundary. The study does not establish caloric self-sufficiency or an autonomous domestic appliance.
F11 / 2021 · full textFinding. The operations study tracked local and remote labor, revealing that support work remains substantial.
Design use. Count remote decisions, cleaning, resupply and maintenance in the autonomy ledger.
Boundary. Antarctic mission work cannot directly predict ordinary commercial labor cost.
F12 / REFERENCE · full textFinding. NFT needs supported channels, appropriate pumping and gravity return; monitoring and backup pumping matter.
Design use. Size head and flow explicitly, support roots, and expose pump-loss recovery.
Boundary. Guidance ranges depend on crop, channel design and local conditions.
F13 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. A commercially available embedded peristaltic pump meters small fluid quantities through flexible tubing.
Design use. Keep acid, base and nutrient concentrates on separate metered lines with hard dose budgets.
Boundary. Tubing wears and delivered volume requires calibration; no universal fertilizer compatibility is implied.
F14 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Commercial valved couplings offer keyed/color-coded fluid interfaces; the listing specifies less than 0.10 cc spillage per disconnect.
Design use. Provide capture wells, leak sensing and identification at a serviceable pump cartridge.
Boundary. Non-spill is not aseptic or literally zero residual; seal and chemical compatibility remain selection tasks.
F15 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Commercial systems already combine sowing, germination, growing, harvesting, gutter cleaning and drying buffers.
Design use. Compare against existing automation; focus the new hypothesis on small interoperable cells and explicit serviceability.
Boundary. Manufacturer claims are not independent performance verification, and the described systems target large greenhouses.
O01 / 2015 · abstractFinding. Thick-panel mechanisms require designed spatial hinge geometry rather than simply adding thickness to a paper crease pattern.
Design use. Design finite-thickness joints explicitly; do not call a morphing render rigid origami.
Boundary. Abstract and originating laboratory summary reviewed; paper methods not fully accessed. Not evidence for this accordion hardware.
O02 / 2024 · official documentationFinding. Toyota Central R&D Labs / University of Tokyo report fabricated meter-scale coupled thick Miura tubes with rigid-foldable geometry and enhanced stiffness.
Design use. Prototype a separate paired-tube frame after reproducing exact thick geometry, not decorative Miura triangles.
Boundary. Report of the originating team, not full methods or a certified building envelope. Research published 21 November 2024; news page 25 February 2025.
O03 / 2015 · full textFinding. Zipper-coupled tubes suppress non-deployment bending/twisting through coupled geometry while retaining a deployment mode.
Design use. Separate transport compliance from in-use load path; design a zipper-tube comparative beam coupon.
Boundary. The intentionally flexible deployment mode still needs restraint. Paper-scale and modeled results are not building load ratings.
O04 / 2024 · full textFinding. Thin thermoformed PETG skins and diaphragms demonstrate geometry-induced elastic buckling barriers and deployed stiffening. Methods include 30 mm target-diameter specimens and controlled thermal forming.
Design use. Reproduce one guarded snap-lock tube coupon; measure barrier and reverse load rather than extrapolate a building column.
Boundary. Thin laboratory material and fabrication-sensitive force response. Self-locking is not the same as autonomous deployment or a scalable certified roof support.
O05 / 2022 · full textFinding. Mixed folding modes can change stiffness and open-channel geometry in a lockable metamaterial family.
Design use. A separate dry vent/lattice coupon can couple opening geometry and mechanical state; never a pressure boundary.
Boundary. Exact crease topology and boundary constraints matter; vent performance, dust loading and building seals are not established.
O06 / 2022 · full textFinding. Reports measured torque-angle and damping characterization with rotary fixtures and free-vibration tests for thick-panel deployment experiments.
Design use. Measure each hinge torque curve and losses; do not paste research constants into an energy estimate.
Boundary. Published spring and damping constants belong to their specimens, not Anyground. Passive deployment depends on tuned trajectories.
O07 / 2022 · full textFinding. Analytical and CAD transition analysis connects finite-thickness geometry and actuator torque to actuation placement.
Design use. Compare end-driven, hinge-driven and assisted motion against an instrumented bench rig before choosing deployment hardware.
Boundary. Reviewed transition analysis and accessible article sections, not a constructed certified shelter or complete environmental qualification.
O08 / 2020 · full textFinding. Interactive joint design jointly evaluates fabrication, assembly and geometric quality; demonstrated 3-axis CNC fabrication and assembled wood objects.
Design use. Adopt design-for-assembly / repair principles, not unlicensed software or an unsupported self-locking claim.
Boundary. Software page limits license to personal/noncommercial research; commercial reuse requires permission. A single-cut-direction joint is slidable in that direction and needs retention where relevant.
O09 / 2024 · abstractFinding. Weighted spectral clustering is used to derive joint boundaries and the method is applied to mechanical joint design with structural analysis.
Design use. Explore geometry synthesis for replaceable interfaces, then verify actual material, retention and tolerances.
Boundary. English abstract reviewed; no claim to have reproduced the Japanese full-paper methods or qualified timber service joints.
O10 / 2021 · abstractFinding. The originating record describes a 10 m optical shield testbed packed into approximately 2.3 m diameter and developed with deployment and finite-element models.
Design use. Large packing ratios are a real engineering discipline, but membrane/truss/load boundaries must remain distinct.
Boundary. Optical membrane testbed, not a weather roof or pressure enclosure; full report download not supplied by the record reviewed.
O11 / 2024 · official documentationFinding. 83.5 m² outdoor compliant shading demonstrator integrates asymmetric FRP/elastomer or thermoplastic laminates, pneumatic cushions and PV. Apparatus page reports 0.3–1.5 bar for its hinge zones.
Design use. Build a separate guarded breathing-skin coupon; borrow integration architecture, not copied material constants.
Boundary. An originating-team report, not independent lifetime certification. Its pressure/angle relation cannot be transferred to a new laminate.
O12 / 2025 · official documentationFinding. University reports 101 flaps, 83.5 m² installation at a Freiburg botanical greenhouse, and two years of testing under real conditions.
Design use. This is present-day outdoor precedent for a non-generic responsive skin, not a reason to defer all material actuation to the distant future.
Boundary. Institutional progress report, not an independent quantified fatigue, energy or safety dataset.
O13 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. A commercial latch family combines rotation, compression and specified retention/sealing details for selected configurations.
Design use. Use a supplier-qualified access latch for service panels; independent structural pins/receivers must be engineered separately.
Boundary. Catalog static loads and ingress claims apply to catalog assemblies only, not a roof, generic cassette or Anyground lock.
O14 / 2026 · official documentationFinding. Guidance calls for cable mobility, separation, strain relief and bend-radius selection against the stiffest/largest service member.
Design use. Keep wet services fixed; test removable dry loops through actual hinge travel and buy cable against its own dynamic data.
Boundary. General routing guidance does not establish fatigue life or a correct bend radius for unselected cable.
O15 / 2023 · official documentationFinding. Demonstrates integrated computational design, lightweight timber cassette construction and robotic manufacture in a built research shell.
Design use. Repeat manufactured cassette logic and robot-reachable interfaces without pretending every bond is reversible.
Boundary. A purpose-designed project with distinct bonding and assembly details, not proof of universal robot-swappable joints.
O16 / 2024 · abstractFinding. Experiments and theory address coupled axial/twist Kresling response and dependence on geometry, material and fabrication.
Design use. Test a non-pressure docking-preload or protective bellows coupon using independent axial/twist fixtures.
Boundary. Abstract / originating university record reviewed, not full constitutive calibration. Kresling is not generally a rigid-foldable mechanism.
O17 / 2014 · full textFinding. Deployment study develops rigid-panel array concepts and physical prototypes with an explicit actuation/packaging problem, including Garolite and Kapton model construction.
Design use. Keep functional tiles on rigid islands, make hinge/actuator design visible, and test deployment independently from electricity generation.
Boundary. Space-array deployment study, not terrestrial wind, rain or public-space safety qualification.
O18 / 2015 · abstractFinding. Offset-panel techniques address material-thickness accommodation while retaining a chosen underlying folding motion.
Design use. Alternative for a later genuine thick-Miura coupon; not used to claim closure for the simple accordion.
Boundary. Discovery abstract / bibliographic evidence reviewed; detailed fabrication methods not fully accessed.
I01 / REFERENCE · full textFinding. Three spheres against three V-grooves provide six nominal contacts; exact-constraint design separates location from other functions.
Design use. Explicit contact geometry, independent preload and a repeatability experiment.
Boundary. The performance of existing precision fixtures is not the performance of this proposed dusty field interface.
I02 / REFERENCE · official documentationFinding. Hardware interfaces should prevent incorrect installation and support correct handling and verification.
Design use. Separate media keying, physical engagement, identity and return-to-service evidence.
Boundary. Guidance does not qualify an Anyground coupling, hazard-control system or connector.