Animal Dynamics has developed another bio-inspired UAV called Stork, which is designed to address the last-mile logistics problem in dangerous situations. The goal is to supply frontline troops without the casualties and expensive damage that can occur by current methods like helicopter, truck or even quadbike. Animal […]

Painful hypodermic needles may not be needed in the future to give shots, inject drugs and get blood samples. With 4D printing, Rutgers engineers have created tiny needles that mimic parasites that attach to skin and could replace hypodermic needles, according to a study in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. While […]

Mechanical properties such as strength, toughness and anisotropy are significant in 3D printing technology. Unfortunately, the strength and toughness are often mutually exclusive, and are therefore difficult to be enhanced simultaneously. Here, a bioinspired parallel-scan path is proposed to increase both the strength and toughness with in-plane isotropy. In this method, […]

This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired flapping wing type Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). Bio-inspiration is implicated to design a flapping wing aerodynamic ornithopter, controlled using a micro scale integrated on- board electronic circuits and communication device. The study of flapping flight from an experimental standpoint brought insight […]