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Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots.

Science robotics Sep 25, 2024
Innovations in control mechanisms for muscle-powered robots are advancing the sophistication of biohybrid machines.
Robotics Equipment Design Biomimetics Humans Animals Muscle, Skeletal
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Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot.

Science robotics Sep 25, 2024
A butterfly-like robot swims using an electronic device to stimulate human-derived motor neurons and cardiac muscle cells.
Swimming Motor Neurons Equipment Design Biomimetics Myocytes, Cardiac Humans Animals Robotics
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Encoding spatiotemporal asymmetry in artificial cilia with a ctenophore-inspired soft-robotic platform.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 20, 2024
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...
Ctenophora Swimming Viscosity Biomimetic Materials Hydrodynamics Silicone Elastomers Cilia Equipment Design Biomimetics Rheology Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics
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A Pneumatic Flexible Linear Actuator Inspired by Snake Swallowing.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Sep 12, 2024
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...
Humans Biomimetics Deglutition Snakes Animals Robotics Equipment Design
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Fish-inspired tracking of underwater turbulent plumes.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 3, 2024
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...
Hydrodynamics Animals Fishes Algorithms Robotics Water Movements Biomimetics Equipment Design Computer Simulation Oceans and Seas Swimming
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Bioinspired deformation computational design method for muscle-driven soft robots using MPM.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 29, 2024
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...
Equipment Design Animals Models, Biological Muscle, Skeletal Biomimetics Locomotion Robotics Humans Anura Computer Simulation
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Towards higher load capacity: innovative design of a robotic hand with soft jointed structure.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 29, 2024
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 ...
Humans Hand Strength Robotics Biomimetics Equipment Design Fingers Hand Tendons Models, Biological
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Hydrodynamic pressure sensing for a biomimetic robotic fish caudal fin integrated with a resistive pressure sensor.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 22, 2024
Micro-sensors, such as pressure and flow sensors, are usually adopted to attain actual fluid information around swimming biomimetic robotic fish for hydrodynamic analysis and control. However, most of the reported micro-sensors are mounted discretely...
Animals Robotics Equipment Design Fishes Biomimetics Swimming Animal Fins Equipment Failure Analysis Pressure Transducers Biomimetic Materials Transducers, Pressure Hydrodynamics
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Artificial organic afferent nerves enable closed-loop tactile feedback for intelligent robot.

Nature communications Aug 15, 2024
The emulation of tactile sensory nerves to achieve advanced sensory functions in robotics with artificial intelligence is of great interest. However, such devices remain bulky and lack reliable competence to functionalize further synaptic devices wit...
Biomimetics Transistors, Electronic Touch Humans Artificial Intelligence Feedback, Sensory Deep Learning Mechanoreceptors Robotics Neurons, Afferent
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Robotic flytrap with an ultra-sensitive 'trichome' and fast-response 'lobes'.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 14, 2024
Nature abounds with examples of ultra-sensitive perception and agile body transformation for highly efficient predation as well as extraordinary adaptation to complex environments. Flytraps, as a representative example, could effectively detect the m...
Touch Flight, Animal Equipment Design Animals Biomimetics Robotics Bees
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