Peer Review History
Original SubmissionFebruary 18, 2020 |
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PONE-D-20-04803 A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities PLOS ONE Dear Dr Mohammadi, Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process. We would appreciate receiving your revised manuscript by May 15 2020 11:59PM. When you are ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file. If you would like to make changes to your financial disclosure, please include your updated statement in your cover letter. To enhance the reproducibility of your results, we recommend that if applicable you deposit your laboratory protocols in protocols.io, where a protocol can be assigned its own identifier (DOI) such that it can be cited independently in the future. For instructions see: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelines#loc-laboratory-protocols Please include the following items when submitting your revised manuscript:
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The PLOS ONE style templates can be found at http://www.journals.plos.org/plosone/s/file?id=wjVg/PLOSOne_formatting_sample_main_body.pdf and http://www.journals.plos.org/plosone/s/file?id=ba62/PLOSOne_formatting_sample_title_authors_affiliations.pdf Additional Editor Comments (if provided): Reviewer #1: Overall the paper is well-written, adequately referenced and provides a sufficient overview of the field of soft, robotic prosthetic hand designs. The design of "X-limb" is well considered in relation to other reported soft prosthetic hands, and the operation and benchmarking has been shown convincingly. However, the structure and goals of the paper are disjointed, landing somewhere between a review article and a research report. Although this work is submitted as a "collection review", it is not immediately clear that the goal of this work is to synthesise a novel design protocol for a prosthetic hand "X-limb", which is then constructed by the authors and benchmarked. In its current form, the paper reads as a research article with an extended introduction and discussion on design parameters. By combining the remit of a review article and a traditional research article, the paper is difficult to follow and does not meet the format requirements for this journal. That the authors have accumulated the current understanding in prosthetic hand designs to reach the recommendations and benchmarks for "X-limb" is not stated clearly. Instead, it seems like the first half of the paper is a "collection review" and the second half is a research report disclosing the design and performance of "X-limb", which has apparently not been reported previously. In addition, the key design parameters seem to come from just 3 references (15-17), which is inadequate for a review-type article. A major revision of the manuscript is recommended to align the format with either a "collection review" - where the X-limb construction and performance discussion is reduced/removed, and emphasis given to examining the literature - or a "research article" - where the discussion of design elements is given as support for the development of X-limb only, and the construction/performance/benchmarking of this unit is the major element of the work. Some minor points: 1. The abstract/intro makes no mention of the fact that this manuscript is a "collection review". This should be stated explicitly, and the scope of the literature to be reviewed should be highlighted. 2. The readability of the manuscript overall would benefit from greater use of paragraphs. 3. Include the figure captions alongside the figures. 4. The quantitative data reported for X-limb needs considerably more information provided: what instrument was used to collect this data, how many times were the measurements repeated and how are the units calculated? As a disclosure of novel research, the data needs to form the central component of the paper. 5. More clarity is required in the abstract/intro about exactly what the paper will deliver. In this regard, the conclusion serves as a better example. Reviewer #2: The authors have successfully constructed soft robotic prosthetic hand using 3D printing. This well-designed soft robot made from polyurethaneis capable of exhibiting multiple functions such as collecting and manipulating objects. This work is systematical and robust, giving high interest to soft robot society. This manuscript is concise, clearly written and well organised. The results are clear and the interpretations are convincing. I recommend the publication of this manuscript in the PLOS ONE. Here are some comments: 1. Why the nozzle temperature was 220ﹾC? How about the glass transition temperature and melting temperature of printed polyurethaneis? 2. The authors claimed that the used polyurethaneis are highly elastic, which should be supported by experimental evidence. 3. Have the authors tried to optimise the 3D printing parameters such as extrusion speed, travel speed and nozzle temperature? [Note: HTML markup is below. Please do not edit.] Reviewers' comments: [NOTE: If reviewer comments were submitted as an attachment file, they will be attached to this email and accessible via the submission site. Please log into your account, locate the manuscript record, and check for the action link "View Attachments". If this link does not appear, there are no attachment files to be viewed.] While revising your submission, please upload your figure files to the Preflight Analysis and Conversion Engine (PACE) digital diagnostic tool, https://pacev2.apexcovantage.com/. 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A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities PONE-D-20-04803R1 Dear Dr. Mohammadi, We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been judged scientifically suitable for publication and will be formally accepted for publication once it complies with all outstanding technical requirements. Within one week, you will receive an e-mail containing information on the amendments required prior to publication. When all required modifications have been addressed, you will receive a formal acceptance letter and your manuscript will proceed to our production department and be scheduled for publication. Shortly after the formal acceptance letter is sent, an invoice for payment will follow. To ensure an efficient production and billing process, please log into Editorial Manager at https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/, click the "Update My Information" link at the top of the page, and update your user information. If you have any billing related questions, please contact our Author Billing department directly at authorbilling@plos.org. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please notify them about your upcoming paper to enable them to help maximize its impact. If they will be preparing press materials for this manuscript, you must inform our press team as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours after receiving the formal acceptance. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information, please contact onepress@plos.org. With kind regards, Luke Connal, PhD Academic Editor PLOS ONE Additional Editor Comments (optional): Reviewers' comments: |
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PONE-D-20-04803R1 A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities Dear Dr. Mohammadi: I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been deemed suitable for publication in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! Your manuscript is now with our production department. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please notify them about your upcoming paper at this point, to enable them to help maximize its impact. If they will be preparing press materials for this manuscript, please inform our press team within the next 48 hours. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information please contact onepress@plos.org. For any other questions or concerns, please email plosone@plos.org. Thank you for submitting your work to PLOS ONE. With kind regards, PLOS ONE Editorial Office Staff on behalf of Dr. Luke Connal Academic Editor PLOS ONE |
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