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Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation [PDF]
Communications BiologyBioinspiration is an approach to innovation based on the observation of biological systems, of which only 0.1% remain since life began 3.7 billion years ago.
Annabelle Aish +14 more
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Enacting Plant-Inspired Robotics [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Plants offer a source of bioinspiration for soft robotics. Nevertheless, a gap remains in designing robots based on the fundamental principles of plant intelligence, rooted in a non-centralized, modular architecture and a highly plastic phenotype.
Jonny Lee, Paco Calvo
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Kinematics and Flow Field Analysis of Allomyrina dichotoma Flight [PDF]
BiomimeticsIn recent years, bioinspired insect flight has become a prominent research area, with a particular focus on beetle-inspired aerial vehicles. Studying the unique flight mechanisms and structural characteristics of beetles has significant implications for ...
Huan Shen +11 more
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A Near-Infrared Imaging System for Robotic Venous Blood Collection [PDF]
SensorsVenous blood collection is a widely used medical diagnostic technique, and with rapid advancements in robotics, robotic venous blood collection has the potential to replace traditional manual methods.
Zhikang Yang +8 more
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A Novel Wheel-Legged Hexapod Robot
Biomimetics, 2022 Traditional mobile robots are mainly divided into wheeled robots and legged robots. They have good performance at fast-moving speeds and crossing obstacles, and weak terrain adaptability and moving speeds, respectively.
Yong Ni +6 more
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Bionic Design of Multi-Toe Quadruped Robot for Planetary Surface Exploration
Machines, 2022 To increase the knowledge and exploit new resources beyond the Earth, planetary surface exploration on the Moon or Mars attracts significant attention around the globe.
Guangming Chen +4 more
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Development of a Lizard-Inspired Robot for Mars Surface Exploration
Biomimetics, 2023 Exploring Mars is beneficial to increasing our knowledge, understanding the possibility of ancient microbial life there, and discovering new resources beyond the Earth to prepare for future human missions to Mars. To assist ambitious uncrewed missions to
Guangming Chen +4 more
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From Bioinspiration to Biomimicry in Architecture: Opportunities and Challenges
Encyclopedia, 2023 The term “bioinspiration” defines a creative approach based on the observation of biological principles and transfer to design. Biomimicry is the recent approach, which describes a large field of scientific and technical activities dealing with an ...
Natasha Chayaamor-Heil
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Bioinspired Self-Shaping Clay Composites for Sustainable Development
Biomimetics, 2022 Bioinspired self-shaping is an approach used to transform flat materials into unusual three-dimensional (3D) shapes by tailoring the internal architecture of the flat material.
Yuxiang Zhang, Hortense Le Ferrand
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Biomimetics, 2022 The field of plant-inspired robotics is based on principles underlying the movements and attachment and adaptability strategies of plants, which together with their materials systems serve as concept generators.
Falk J. Tauber +4 more
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