A bioinspired robotic flapping mechanism was designed to mimic the fast motion of impulsive jumping animals. A theoretical model is developed to predict the jumping height of various water-exiting bodies, which shows that the mass of the entrained fluid relative to the mass of the body limits the maximum jumping height. […]

Researchers at Harvard are developing bio-inspired neural probes. Current probes are inflexible and foreign to the brain’s environment, so they lead to neuroinflammatory responses, loss of neurons, and measurement instabilities. The researchers developed electronics with a soma, neurite, and thin polymer insulation that acted like a myelin […]

Researchers at the University of Washington have recently created RoboFly, a 74-mg flapping-wing robot that can move in the air, on the ground, and on water surfaces. Insect-size robots could have numerous useful applications, for instance, aiding search and rescue (SAR) missions, simplifying the inspection of infrastructures and speeding up agricultural […]