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Advances in Materials, 2018
Earthworms are able to pass through sticky soil without inducing stains through a self‐forming thick lubricating layer on their rough skins. To mimic this earthworm‐like lubricating capability, an attempt to create a textured structure on the surface of ...
Huaixia Zhao +3 more
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Earthworms are able to pass through sticky soil without inducing stains through a self‐forming thick lubricating layer on their rough skins. To mimic this earthworm‐like lubricating capability, an attempt to create a textured structure on the surface of ...
Huaixia Zhao +3 more
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2000
Earthworms are believed to be so-called key species within ecosystems and are often exposed to a wide range of anthropogenic compounds released to the terrestrial environment. As a consequence, they may suffer from the toxicity of these compounds. For these and other reasons, earthworms have been used extensively in ecotoxicological studies.
Scott-Fordsmand, J. J., Weeks, J. M.
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Earthworms are believed to be so-called key species within ecosystems and are often exposed to a wide range of anthropogenic compounds released to the terrestrial environment. As a consequence, they may suffer from the toxicity of these compounds. For these and other reasons, earthworms have been used extensively in ecotoxicological studies.
Scott-Fordsmand, J. J., Weeks, J. M.
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Soft Robotics, 2020
Earthworm-like peristaltic locomotion has been implemented in >50 robots, with many potential applications in otherwise inaccessible terrain. Design guidelines for peristaltic locomotion have come from observations of biology, but robots have empirically
A. Kandhari +4 more
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Earthworm-like peristaltic locomotion has been implemented in >50 robots, with many potential applications in otherwise inaccessible terrain. Design guidelines for peristaltic locomotion have come from observations of biology, but robots have empirically
A. Kandhari +4 more
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Development of a New Multi-cavity Pneumatic-driven Earthworm-like Soft Robot
Robotica (Cambridge. Print), 2020SUMMARY This paper presents a soft robot which can imitate the crawling locomotion of an earthworm. Locomotion of the robot can be achieved by expanding and contracting the body that is made of flexible material.
Zhijie Tang +5 more
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Amino acids in earthworms: Are earthworms ecosystemivorous?
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1997Abstract Amino acid contents were studied in eight earthworm species ( Lumbricus rubellus, L. terrestris, Nicodrilus roseus, N. caliginosus, Dendrobaena octaedra, Eisenia nordenskioldi, Octolasium lacteum, Drawida ghilarovi ), plant litter and soil.
Gennadii N. Ganin +3 more
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An earthworm-inspired friction-controlled soft robot capable of bidirectional locomotion
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2019We present the design, fabrication, modeling and feedback control of an earthworm-inspired soft robot capable of bidirectional locomotion on both horizontal and inclined flat platforms. In this approach, the locomotion patterns are controlled by actively
Joey Z. Ge +3 more
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An earthworm-inspired soft robot with perceptive artificial skin
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2019The bodies of earthworms are composed of repeating deformable structural units, called metameres, that generate the peristaltic body motions required for limbless underground burrowing and above-ground crawling.
Ariel A. Calderón +4 more
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Earthworms and microorganisms [PDF]
, 1972 It is generally agreed that the species of micro-organisms in the alimentary canal of earthworms are usually the same as those in the soils in which the worms live. For instance, Bassalik (1913) isolated more than fifty species of bacteria from the alimentary canal of Lumbricus terrestris, but found none that differed from those in the soil from which ...
Clive A. Edwards, J. R. Lofty
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