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New Robotic Gripper Picks Up, Releases Objects Without Breaking Them

Taking a cue from nature, UNSW Sydney engineers have developed a novel soft fabric robotic gripper that acts similar to an elephant’s trunk to grip, pick up, and release objects without damaging them.

10 Nov 2020

Pulsed-Jet Propulsion of Squids Explored to Create Bioinspired Underwater Robots

Cephalopods such as squids use a kind of jet propulsion that is not clearly understood, specifically with respect to their hydrodynamics under turbulent flow conditions.

4 Nov 2020

New Robot Developed Based on Movement of Cockroaches and Lizards

Inspired by the way lizards and cockroaches move, a new high-speed amphibious robot with the capability to swim and run on top of water at high speeds and crawl on tough landscape has been built by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).

3 Nov 2020

Biomimetic Fish-Like Robots Provide Insight into How Fish can Save Energy

A fish school is a striking demonstration of synchronicity. Yet centuries of study have left a basic question unanswered:

27 Oct 2020

Biomimetic Robot Reveals Swimming Techniques Used by Fish

A school of fish is a remarkable display of synchronicity. But even years of research have not resolved a fundamental question—do fish swim in schools to save energy?

27 Oct 2020

New System Helps Control Swarm of Robots to Paint a Picture

The concept of a swarm of robots taking instructions and painting a picture might seem unrealistic but a new study reported in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, an open-access journal, has demonstrated that it is achievable.

15 Oct 2020

Robotic Fish Helps Expose Collective Patterns of Animal Groups

Using advanced robotics, a research group has demonstrated that the speed of animals is essential for collective behavioral patterns, and that, eventually, it is the faster creatures that have the strongest impact on group-level behavior.

17 Sep 2020

Wireless Artificial Aquatic Polyp Removes Contaminants from Water

Coral polyps that constitute corals found in the ocean are small soft creatures with tentacles and a stem. They nourish the corals and help the corals to survive by producing self-made currents from the motion of their soft bodies.

11 Aug 2020

Novel Humanoid Hand Could Offer Robots a Soft Touch

At Michigan State University a team of engineers has designed and created an innovative humanoid hand that could help develop a robot with a soft touch.

21 Jul 2020

Sensory Integrated Robotic System Mimics Biological Neural Networks

Researchers have created a sensory integrated artificial brain system that simulates biological neural networks, which can work using a power-efficient neuromorphic processor such as Intel’s Loihi chip.

16 Jul 2020