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SQuRO, Quadruped Robotic Rat: Biomimicry

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Nature has always inspired robotics engineers to design bots with the same agility and efficiency. And this is also one of the reasons why researchers look up to biomimicry to solve human design challenges. When it comes to navigate tight and congested arenas wouldn’t rodents be the best options to design a device? Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) thought the same. According to Qing Shi, a Professor at BIT, legged robots have limitations when operating in narrow spaces. Micro quadruped robots too can face performance issues due to…

Magnetic Tentacle Robot for Autonomous Endoscopy: Soft Catheters

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Magnetic tentacle robot, strange it may sound but researchers at STORM Lab at the University of Leeds have come up with a tiny canular form of robot that can explore the smallest bronchial tubes in the lungs. The nano tubiform bot measures around 2 millimetres in diameter. That happens to be two times the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen. The tentacle robot will be guided from the outside with the help of (external) magnets.

Insect sized Flying Robot with Flapping Wings: Micro air Vehicle

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the University of Bristol, U.K. have fabricated a flapping-wing microrobot that can produce more power than a similar-sized insect. The micro-air vehicle is a product of biomimicry, inspired from bees and other flying insects.

Wireless RF Powered Insect Scale Aerial Vehicle: Miniature UAV

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at Toyota Central R&D Labs have developed a wireless radiofrequency power based tiny aerial robot.

Biomimicry: LEONARDO, the Bipedal Robot can Walk and Fly

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Nature not only inspire poets, artists, painters but also engineers. In an attempt to simulate the locomotion of birds, researchers at Caltech have developed a bipedal robot that has a movement that is between walking and flying.

Swimming is Dynamics of Two Nervous System: AgnathaX

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Starting in the early 1900s, one of the problems that baffled neuroscientists worldwide was the role of central and peripheral nervous systems in swimming locomotion. In other words, how swimming locomotion is generated and how vertebrates synchronize the rhythm that is required for the locomotion.

Chameleon Inspired Next-Generation Artificial Camouflage: Biomimicry

August 13, 2021August 15, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

To depict natural camouflage characteristics via artificial camouflage at device level has remained a challenge since decades. However, researchers at Seoul National University have developed an artificial camouflage that can adapt and blend with its surroundings. A defense strategy as seen in the case of chameleon that changes its appearance to avoid predators.

Fruitflies Inspired Tiny Drones To Locate Gas Leak Source: Biomimicry

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Biomimicry is not only shaping sustainable designs but it’s also revolutionizing the robotic technology. Researchers today are picking up learning from animal and insect kingdom to develop locomotion and structures in their labs.

Electronics Free Quadrupedal Robot: Pneumatic Efficiency

March 31, 2021May 26, 2022 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have come up with an innovative approach in creating soft bot that is devoid of any electronics. Rather it is an air powered robot. All its controls and locomotion are done with the help of pressurized air.

Soft Artificial Tactile Sensor for Robots: Electronic Skin

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

In a collaborative research co-led by City University of Hong Kong scientists have created an innovative tactile sensor that resembles the characteristics of human skin. Mounted at the fingertip, the sensor is capable of holding delicate objects and thread a needle.

Super Strong Artificial Muscles: Interactive Soft Robotics

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

An Italian team of researchers lead by Prof. Marco Fontana, in collaboration with the departments of Industrial Engineering of the Universities of Trento and Bologna, have created an Electrostatic Bellow Muscle (EBM) to fabricate efficient small-scale robots. The innovative robotic muscle has potential of powering itself for a long period of time beyond its preliminary charge.

Smellicopter uses Antennae from Anesthetized Moths: Biomimicry

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

We as humans have a huge legacy of evolution yet we always fall short in front of nature. Nature has its own rate of progression and it never fails.

Portable Docking Station For Autonomous Charging: Marine Robotics

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Rescue missions under natural disasters or man-made catastrophes are not only threatening for the safety of people but also quiet complex and dangerous for a rescue team. In order to increase the efficiency, robots are used in search and rescue (SAR) missions.

Robot Fiction Defines Robotics: Japan vs The West

August 28, 2020September 17, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Skynet, Terminator or maybe Matrix these are the names that might come to our minds when we think of robots combined with artificial intelligence (AI). And what does these cults represent, fear!

RoBeetle: Autonomous Crawling Bot Driven By Methanol Combustion

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers have long envisioned designing tiny intelligent autonomous machines that are capable of exploring dangerous environments or the areas where tiny bots can work with full efficiency.