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Fish-Inspired Robots can Synchronize Movements Without Any Outside Control

Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate and evade predators. No one fish or team of fish coordinates these movements nor do fish communicate with each other about what to do next. Rather, these collective behaviors emerge from so-called implicit coordination -- individual fish making decisions based on what they see their neighbors doing.

15 Jan 2021

Coupled Rössler Systems Help Generate Insect-Like Gaits for Tiny Robots

Scientists from Italy and Japan have been using chaos and nonlinear physics to develop insect-like gaits for small robots, which are complete with a locomotion controller to offer a brain-machine interface.

16 Dec 2020

New Robotic Gripper Picks Up, Releases Objects Without Breaking Them

Taking a cue from nature, UNSW Sydney engineers have developed a novel soft fabric robotic gripper that acts similar to an elephant’s trunk to grip, pick up, and release objects without damaging them.

10 Nov 2020

Pulsed-Jet Propulsion of Squids Explored to Create Bioinspired Underwater Robots

Cephalopods such as squids use a kind of jet propulsion that is not clearly understood, specifically with respect to their hydrodynamics under turbulent flow conditions.

4 Nov 2020

New Robot Developed Based on Movement of Cockroaches and Lizards

Inspired by the way lizards and cockroaches move, a new high-speed amphibious robot with the capability to swim and run on top of water at high speeds and crawl on tough landscape has been built by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).

3 Nov 2020

Biomimetic Fish-Like Robots Provide Insight into How Fish can Save Energy

A fish school is a striking demonstration of synchronicity. Yet centuries of study have left a basic question unanswered:

27 Oct 2020

Biomimetic Robot Reveals Swimming Techniques Used by Fish

A school of fish is a remarkable display of synchronicity. But even years of research have not resolved a fundamental question—do fish swim in schools to save energy?

27 Oct 2020

New System Helps Control Swarm of Robots to Paint a Picture

The concept of a swarm of robots taking instructions and painting a picture might seem unrealistic but a new study reported in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, an open-access journal, has demonstrated that it is achievable.

15 Oct 2020

Robotic Fish Helps Expose Collective Patterns of Animal Groups

Using advanced robotics, a research group has demonstrated that the speed of animals is essential for collective behavioral patterns, and that, eventually, it is the faster creatures that have the strongest impact on group-level behavior.

17 Sep 2020

Wireless Artificial Aquatic Polyp Removes Contaminants from Water

Coral polyps that constitute corals found in the ocean are small soft creatures with tentacles and a stem. They nourish the corals and help the corals to survive by producing self-made currents from the motion of their soft bodies.

11 Aug 2020