Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 27, 2020
Research on soft robots and swimming robots has been widely reported and demonstrated. However, none of these soft swimming robots can swim flexibly and efficiently using legs, just like a frog. This paper demonstrates a self-contained, untethered sw...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 19, 2020
The objective of this study is to integrate biomimetic robots into small groups of zebrafish and to modulate their collective behaviours. A possible approach is to have the robots behave like sheepdogs. In this case, the robots would behave like a di...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 19, 2020
Thanks to their sprawled posture and multi-legged support, stability is not as hard to achieve for hexapedal robots as it is for bipeds and quadrupeds. A key engineering challenge with hexapods has been to produce insect-like agility and maneuverabil...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 13, 2020
In nature, the lateral line system (LLS) is a critical sensor organ of fish for rheotaxis in complex environments. Inspired by the LLS, numbers of artificial lateral line systems (ALLSs) have been designed to the fish-like robots for flow field perce...
Journal of materials chemistry. B
May 6, 2020
Soft robots represent an emerging class of biologically-inspired machines that are primarily composed of elastomers, fluids, and other forms of soft matter. Current examples include crawling and swimming robots that exhibit the mobility, mechanical c...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Mar 25, 2020
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have a wide range of robotics applications, especially in soft robots, for their ability to generate linear force and displacement with the soft, lightweight, compact, and safe characteristics as well as high power...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Mar 20, 2020
Inspired by a scallop's strong underwater propulsion mechanism, we designed and prototyped a scallop robot capable of clapping and swimming. In this work, an artificial velum was used to work as a check valve to stimulate the robot's swimming. A coup...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Mar 3, 2020
Propulsion of swimming robots at the surface and underwater is largely dominated by rotary propellers due to high thrust, but at the cost of low efficiency. Due to their inherently high speed turning motion, sharp propeller blades and generated noise...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Feb 24, 2020
It has been shown that human-like hopping can be achieved by muscle reflex control in neuromechanical simulations. However, it is unclear if this concept is applicable and feasible for controlling a real robot. This paper presents a low-cost two-segm...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Feb 24, 2020
After millions of years of evolution, fishes have been endowed with agile swimming ability to accomplish various behaviourally relevant tasks. In comparison, robotic fish are still quite poor swimmers. One of the unique challenges facing robotic fish...