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Human-mimetic soft robot joint for shock absorption through joint dislocation.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper presents a human-mimetic manipulator capable of shock absorption by using dislocation at the soft joint. A one degree-of-freedom (DOF) soft robot joint was developed based on the human elbow-joint structure, especially mimicking the humero...

A biohybrid fly-robot interface system that performs active collision avoidance.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
We have designed a bio-hybrid fly-robot interface (FRI) to study sensorimotor control in insects. The FRI consists of a miniaturized recording platform mounted on a two-wheeled robot and is controlled by the neuronal spiking activity of an identified...

Bio-inspired Design and Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials, Machines, Robots, and Haptic Interfaces.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Soft materials possess several distinctive characteristics, such as controllable deformation, infinite degrees of freedom, and self-assembly, which make them promising candidates for building soft machines, robots, and haptic interfaces. In this Revi...

A minimal longitudinal dynamic model of a tailless flapping wing robot for control design.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Recently, several insect- and hummingbird-inspired tailless flapping wing robots have been introduced. However, their flight dynamics, which are likely to be similar to that of their biological counterparts, remain yet to be fully understood. We prop...

Bottom-level motion control for robotic fish to swim in groups: modeling and experiments.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Moving in groups is an amazing spectacle of collective behaviour in fish and has attracted considerable interest from many fields, including biology, physics and engineering. Although robotic fish have been well studied, including algorithms to simul...

Design and demonstration of a bio-inspired flapping-wing-assisted jumping robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jumping insects such as fleas, froghoppers, grasshoppers, and locusts take off from the ground using a catapult mechanism to push their legs against the surface of the ground while using their pairs of flapping wings to propel them into the air. Such...

Double-integrated mimic enzymes for the visual screening of Microcystin-LR: Copper hydroxide nanozyme and G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzyme.

Analytica chimica acta
Recently, mimic enzymes have obtained particular interest by their high activity, stability, and biocompatibility. In this work, by coupling copper hydroxide nanozyme and G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzyme to form a double-integrated mimic enzyme, a visual, ...

Avian-inspired energy-harvesting from atmospheric phenomena for small UAVs.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Fixed-wing small, unmanned aerial vehicles usually fly in atmospheric boundary layers that are often under the influence of turbulent environments. Inspired by nature's flyers, an application of an energy-harvesting flight strategy for increasing the...

Do a robot's social skills and its objection discourage interactants from switching the robot off?

PloS one
Building on the notion that people respond to media as if they were real, switching off a robot which exhibits lifelike behavior implies an interesting situation. In an experimental lab study with a 2x2 between-subjects-design (N = 85), people were g...

Bioinspired 3D Printable Soft Vacuum Actuators for Locomotion Robots, Grippers and Artificial Muscles.

Soft robotics
Continued technological progress in robotic systems has led to more applications where robots and humans operate in close proximity and even physical contact in some cases. Soft robots, which are made of highly compliant and deformable materials, pro...