michael11-Mar-2026
#Mussel #adhesion meets conductivity: new #bioglue for #bioelectronic #implants
Linux Professional InstituteMany industries hope to benefit from #AI, but they know little about where it works & where it’s unreliable. #3DPrinting is a good field to test AI, with complex factors, interacting settings, & unpredictable conditions, says our author Andy Oram.
Read more in this article: https://lpi.org/711y
#3DPrinting #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #CNN #Biomimetic #AnomalyDetection #AdditiveManufacturing
WorlddefensereportEuropean Defence Agency Develops Tech for Underwater Drones to Move in Swarms
The European Defence Agency (#EDA) has completed the second phase of its #Swarm of #Biomimetic #UnderwaterVehicles (#SABUVIS II) project, concluding a four-year effort to enable #autonomous underwater vehicles (#AUVs) to operate in coordinated swarms rather than as isolated platforms.
Totty Johnson#China unveils world’s first #biomimetic #AI #robot that #smiles #winks https://share.google/fZqt9FVNStVk1DaTF
LusogeekWorld’s first ‘biomimetic AI robot’ Moya debuts with 92% human-like walking accuracy
Not industrial. Not cartoonish. Moya sits in that uneasy middle ground where robots start feeling too real.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/shanghai-unveils-moya-humanoid-robot
#robotics #robots #tech #technews #chinesetech #china #chineserobots #roboticsnews #airobot #ainews #worldfirst #humanlike #biomimetic
Paul Houle🪱 Bioinspired Drilling for Extraterrestrial Applications
🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-bird-robot-wing-takeoff-flight.html
#robots #mechanical #machines #engineering #ornithopter #flight #birds #biomimetic
Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.
🦴 A new bone substitute made out of 3D-printed glass
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-bone-substitute-3d-glass.html
#materials #bone #biomimetic #medicine #healthcare #3dprinting
A new bone substitute made out of 3D-printed glass
You might think that glass has no business acting as a replacement for bone, but it turns out the two materials have many similarities. For a new study published in ACS Nano, researchers developed a 3D printable bio-active glass that served as an effective bone replacement material. In rabbits, it sustained bone cell growth better than regular glass and a commercially available bone substitute.
GiAnt: A Bio-Inspired Hexapod for Adaptive Terrain Navigation and Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15264
#robots #robotics #cs #vision #computing #mechanical #biomimetic
GiAnt: A Bio-Inspired Hexapod for Adaptive Terrain Navigation and Object Detection
This paper presents the design, development and testing of GiAnt, an affordable hexapod which is inspired by the efficient motions of ants. The decision to model GiAnt after ants rather than other insects is rooted in ants' natural adaptability to a variety of terrains. This bio-inspired approach gives it a significant advantage in outdoor applications, offering terrain flexibility along with efficient energy use. It features a lightweight 3D-printed and laser cut structure weighing 1.75 kg with dimensions of 310 mm x 200 mm x 120 mm. Its legs have been designed with a simple Single Degree of Freedom (DOF) using a link and crank mechanism. It is great for conquering challenging terrains such as grass, rocks, and steep surfaces. Unlike traditional robots using four wheels for motion, its legged design gives superior adaptability to uneven and rough surfaces. GiAnt's control system is built on Arduino, allowing manual operation. An effective way of controlling the legs of GiAnt was achieved by gait analysis. It can move up to 8 cm of height easily with its advanced leg positioning system. Furthermore, equipped with machine learning and image processing technology, it can identify 81 different objects in a live monitoring system. It represents a significant step towards creating accessible hexapod robots for research, exploration, and surveying, offering unique advantages in adaptability and control simplicity.
🐘 MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20510
#robotics #machines #gripper #sensors #engineering #elephant #biomimetic #bionic #technology
MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
The elephant trunk exemplifies a natural gripper where structure, actuation, and sensing are seamlessly integrated. Inspired by the distal morphology of the African elephant trunk, we present MELEGROS, a Monolithic ELEphant-inspired GRipper with Optical Sensors, emphasizing sensing as an intrinsic, co-fabricated capability. Unlike multi-material or tendon-based approaches, MELEGROS directly integrates six optical waveguide sensors and five pneumatic chambers into a pneumatically actuated lattice structure (12.5 mm cell size) using a single soft resin and one continuous 3D print. This eliminates mechanical mismatches between sensors, actuators, and body, reducing model uncertainty and enabling simulation-guided sensor design and placement. Only four iterations were required to achieve the final prototype, which features a continuous structure capable of elongation, compression, and bending while decoupling tactile and proprioceptive signals. MELEGROS (132 g) lifts more than twice its weight, performs bioinspired actions such as pinching, scooping, and reaching, and delicately grasps fragile items like grapes. The integrated optical sensors provide distinct responses to touch, bending, and chamber deformation, enabling multifunctional perception. MELEGROS demonstrates a new paradigm for soft robotics where fully embedded sensing and continuous structures inherently support versatile, bioinspired manipulation.