AIMC Topic: Biomimetics

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Inspiration from Visual Ecology for Advancing Multifunctional Robotic Vision Systems: Bio-inspired Electronic Eyes and Neuromorphic Image Sensors.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
In robotics, particularly for autonomous navigation and human-robot collaboration, the significance of unconventional imaging techniques and efficient data processing capabilities is paramount. The unstructured environments encountered by robots, cou...

Fast, variable stiffness-induced braided coiled artificial muscles.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Biomimetic actuation technologies with high muscle strokes, cycle rates, and work capacities are necessary for robotic systems. We present a muscle type that operates based on changes in muscle stiffness caused by volume expansion. This muscle is cre...

Physical reservoir computing on a soft bio-inspired swimmer.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Bio-inspired Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with soft bodies provide significant performance benefits over conventional propeller-driven vehicles; however, it is difficult to control these vehicles due to their soft underactuated bodies. This study i...

Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots.

Science robotics
Innovations in control mechanisms for muscle-powered robots are advancing the sophistication of biohybrid machines.

Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot.

Science robotics
A butterfly-like robot swims using an electronic device to stimulate human-derived motor neurons and cardiac muscle cells.

Encoding spatiotemporal asymmetry in artificial cilia with a ctenophore-inspired soft-robotic platform.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
A remarkable variety of organisms use metachronal coordination (i.e. numerous neighboring appendages beating sequentially with a fixed phase lag) to swim or pump fluid. This coordination strategy is used by microorganisms to break symmetry at small s...

A Pneumatic Flexible Linear Actuator Inspired by Snake Swallowing.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Soft robots spark a revolution in human-machine interaction. However, developing high-performance soft actuators remains challenging due to trade-offs among output force, driving distance, control precision, safety, and compliance. Here, addressing t...

Fish-inspired tracking of underwater turbulent plumes.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Autonomous ocean-exploring vehicles have begun to take advantage of onboard sensor measurements of water properties such as salinity and temperature to locate oceanic features in real time. Such targeted sampling strategies enable more rapid study of...

Bioinspired deformation computational design method for muscle-driven soft robots using MPM.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
In order to adapt to complex and changing environments, animals have a wide variety of locomotor forms, which has inspired the investigation of their deformation and driving mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a computational design method for musc...

Towards higher load capacity: innovative design of a robotic hand with soft jointed structure.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
In this paper, the innovative design of a robotic hand with soft jointed structure is carried out and a tendon-driven mechanism, a master-slave motor coordinated drive mechanism, a thumb coupling transmission mechanism and a thumb steering mechanism ...