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Researchers Test Ability of Bio-Inspired Hexapedal Robot to Move Across Loosely-Packed Surface

Having a light touch can make a hefty difference in how well animals and robots move across challenging granular surfaces such as snow, sand and leaf litter.

13 Oct 2015

‘Avatar’-Like Bio-Robotic Motor System Helps Understand Locomotion from Leg Up

Simple mechanical descriptions of the way people and animals walk, run, jump and hop liken whole leg behavior to a spring or pogo stick.

13 Oct 2015

Researchers Develop Test-Bed to Test Performance of Animals and Hexapedal Robot

These findings, reported today, Friday 9th October, in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomechanics, offer a new insight into how animals respond to different terrain, and how robots can learn from them.

9 Oct 2015

Robotic Finger Mimics Motions of Human Finger

Most robotic parts used today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don't really look lifelike. Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist from Florida Atlantic University has designed a novel robotic finger that looks and feels like the real thing.

9 Oct 2015

Researchers Create Robotic 'School' with 3D-Printed Plastic Wing Swimmers

Fish and birds, when moving in groups, could use two "gears"--one slow and another fast--in ways that conserve energy, a team of New York University researchers has concluded. Its findings offer new insights into the contours of air and water flows--knowledge that could be used to develop more energy-efficient modes of transportation.

7 Oct 2015

Motek 2015: Festo Presents FlexShapeGripper and eMotionButterflies

At Motek 2015 from 5th to 8th October in Stuttgart, Festo presents current research projects from the Bionic Learning Network.

6 Oct 2015

Mathematical Model for How Flexible Wings or Fins Should be for Flying or Swimming Drones

If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings?

30 Sep 2015

Kinematic Model of Water Striders’ Jumping on Water Helps Design Miniature Robots

Jumping is an antipredatory adaptation of many water strider species to avoid capture by predators that attack from under the water surface. The Korean-Polish team of biologists, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-Im Lee and Jae Hak Son from the Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (Jablonski, Lee and Son) and the Institute of Advanced Machines and Design (Lee) at the Seoul National University have filmed jumping behavior of the largest water strider species in Korea, Aquarius paludum.

6 Aug 2015

Robotic 'Whisker' Tactile Sensor Array Produces Tomographic Images by Measuring Fluid Flow

Many mammals, including seals and rats, rely on their whiskers to sense their way through dark environments. Inspired by these animals, scientists working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois' Advanced Digital Sciences Centre in Singapore have developed a robotic 'whisker' tactile sensor array designed to produce tomographic images by measuring fluid flow.

5 Aug 2015

Walking on Water - Robotic Insect Inspired by Water Striders

A team of researchers from the Seoul National University, Korea (SNU), the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed unique robots that leap off from the water's surface.

31 Jul 2015