New robotic actuator extends and contracts like a biological muscle, in a crawling soft robot that bends in tight environments and an artificial bicep that lifts weights. It stiffens like a human muscle, a property missing from soft robotics, to help robots ‘behave and move like living organisms’.
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Northwestern
Creating artificial ‘muscles’ for safer, softer robots
Simplified, low-cost soft devices enable worm-like crawling, bicep-like lifting and more
A new study shows how insect brains might calculate the sun’s position using internal clocks and trigonometric circuits.
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Nature
Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass
Nature Communications - Insects use the sun for navigation, compensating for its movement throughout the day; a process that remains poorly understood. This study proposes a model of how...
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Sperm don’t just swim - they screw their way forward. Researchers discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid vortices, like rolling corkscrews, giving them an extra boost to the egg. This is the first time researchers captured both the flagellar motion and the surrounding 3D flow field.
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Sperm don’t just swim - they screw their way forward
Sperm don’t just swim - they screw their way forward
Monash researchers have discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid vortices – shaped like rolling corkscrews – giving them an
Monash researchers have discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid vortices – shaped like rolling corkscrews – giving them an
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Some fish have the remarkable ability to navigate and locate prey in total darkness using nothing but electrical fields ⚡🐟. Researchers recently made an artificial neural network (ANN) to decode this “electric vision” in fish.
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PNAS
Neural networks decode “electric vision” in fish
To better understand how the African elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) uses electrical fields to see the world, researchers built an artificial neural network based on recordings from the fish. Image credit: Shutterstock/slowmotiongli
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The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye 👁️ but, unlike human eyes, it can regrow itself if injured or even amputated. The snail has potential as a model organism to study eye regeneration 🔄, and better understand conditions such as macular degeneration 🥴.
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Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Seeing with fresh eyes: Snails as a system for studying sight…
Stowers scientists have established the apple snail as a new research organism for investigating eye regeneration, which may hold the key for restoring…
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New robotics fish fin can propel bots through the water at 1.66 body lengths per second, easily turn, mimicking fish movement 🐟🤖💦
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IEEE Spectrum
Robotic Fish Zips Through Water With Flexible Electromagnetic Fin
Researchers have created a bionic fin that swims like a fish, combining power and flexibility in a compact design.
Science News
Oyster cement: Scientists study shellfish to make stronger, faster-curing building material Read Full Article #OysterCement #BioInspiredMaterials #SustainableConstruction
🔬 Scientists at Purdue University are developing a new type of cement inspired by the way oysters build reefs, creating a material that is stronger and cures faster than traditional cement.
🐚 This innovative cement mimics the natural adhesive oysters use, which is primarily calcium carbonate (like chalk) combined with a small percentage of organic materials, allowing it to bond effectively even underwater.
🏗️ Tests show that incorporating this oyster-inspired cement into standard concrete mix resulted in a material that adhered 10 times more strongly and had doubled compressive strength, with faster curing times.
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🐚 This innovative cement mimics the natural adhesive oysters use, which is primarily calcium carbonate (like chalk) combined with a small percentage of organic materials, allowing it to bond effectively even underwater.
🏗️ Tests show that incorporating this oyster-inspired cement into standard concrete mix resulted in a material that adhered 10 times more strongly and had doubled compressive strength, with faster curing times.
#SustainableMaterials #ConstructionTech #Biomimicry
Researchers take inspiration from deep-sea sponges to design material with dual mechano-fluidic properties
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Berkeley Engineering
New metamaterials take inspiration from deep-sea sponges - Berkeley Engineering
Researchers look to nature to design material with dual mechano-fluidic properties