Many mammals, including seals and rats, rely on their whiskers to sense their way through dark environments. Inspired by these animals, scientists working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois' Advanced ...
Engineering
Aug 4, 2015
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Snake skin inspired surfaces smash records, providing an astonishing 40% friction reduction in tests of high performance materials.
General Physics
Jun 30, 2015
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Researchers at University of California, Berkeley have taken inspiration from the cockroach to create a robot that can use its body shape to manoeuvre through a densely cluttered environment.
Robotics
Jun 22, 2015
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A robotic arm that can bend, stretch and squeeze through cluttered environments has been created by a group of researchers from Italy.
Robotics
May 13, 2015
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Researchers in the US have taken inspiration from nature to create a robotic wing that can recover from mid-air collisions.
Engineering
Mar 26, 2015
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Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement - Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) have developed the first aerial robot able to fly over uneven terrain that is stabilized visually without ...
Robotics
Mar 10, 2015
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Scientists have developed an octopus-like robot, which can zoom through water with ultra-fast propulsion and acceleration never before seen in man-made underwater vehicles.
Robotics
Feb 5, 2015
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A fly's sense of smell could be used in new technology to detect drugs and bombs, new University of Sussex research has found.
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2014
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There's an old adage that warns against passing judgment based on appearance, but female bluefin killifish, like many animal species, apparently don't share such human wisdom when choosing a mate. Researchers at the New York ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2014
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Amazon's plan to unleash a wave of "delivery drones" has occasionally been criticized as a pie-in-the-sky idea (literally, if they start shipping baked goods).
Engineering
Jun 23, 2014
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