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Bio-Inspired Robot Demonstrates Ray Sperms' Unique Swimming Motion

It is generally agreed that sperms "swim" by beating or rotating their soft tails. However, a research team led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong has discovered that ray sperms move by rotating both the tail and the head.

11 Jun 2021

Robertson Introduce Facial Recognition Technology on UK’s First National Robotarium Site

Robertson Construction has deployed facial recognition technology on its prestigious National Robotarium project in Edinburgh to support contactless site entry for the workforce.

9 Jun 2021

Modern Drones Could Mimic 300-Million-Year-Old Dragonflies

Scientists from the University of South Australia drew inspiration from a 300-million-year-old flying machine—the dragonfly—to illustrate why future flapping-wing drones will perhaps look like the insect in wings, shape, and gearing.

28 Apr 2021

Small, Swimming Robots Self-Heal Magnetically After Breaking into Pieces

Living tissue is known to heal itself even after several injuries. However, it has been highly difficult to impart similar abilities to artificial systems like robots.

25 Mar 2021

New Flexible Underwater Robot Propels Itself in Water like Jellyfish

A flexible underwater robot with the ability to propel itself through the water quite similar to the Aurelia aurita jellyfish—nature’s most efficient swimmer—has been developed by researchers from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh.

21 Jan 2021

Fish-Inspired Robots can Synchronize Movements Without Any Outside Control

Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate and evade predators. No one fish or team of fish coordinates these movements nor do fish communicate with each other about what to do next. Rather, these collective behaviors emerge from so-called implicit coordination -- individual fish making decisions based on what they see their neighbors doing.

15 Jan 2021

Coupled Rössler Systems Help Generate Insect-Like Gaits for Tiny Robots

Scientists from Italy and Japan have been using chaos and nonlinear physics to develop insect-like gaits for small robots, which are complete with a locomotion controller to offer a brain-machine interface.

16 Dec 2020

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