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🦾 Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made from both living tissue and synthetic parts. By pairing lab-grown muscles with synthetic skeletons, researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, swimmers, and grippers.

Neat bit of #robotics - 'spot' moving some tyers; the bits where it uses a foot or it's body to help are really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_ZHzp8nQA

🗺️ Multi-View Omnidirectional Vision and Structured Light for High-Precision Mapping and Reconstruction
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🐘 MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
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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 lattic…