Traditional approaches to sensing have often been aimed at simple sensor characteristics to make interpretation of the sensor outputs easier, but this has also limited the quality of the encoded sensory information. Integrating a complex sensor with deep learning could hence be a strategy for removing current limitations on the information […]
Rolf Mueller, a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech created technology that determines the location of a sound’s origin, inspired by bats. A picture of the synthetic bat ear designed by Professor Mueller and his team is attached.
Wound healing is important for marine taxa such as elasmobranchs, which can incur a range of natural and anthropogenic wounds throughout their life history. There is evidence that this group shows a high capacity for external wound healing. However, anthropogenic wounds may become more frequent due to increasing commercial and recreational […]
Currently, a study carried out at the University of Trento takes inspiration from dandelions to create new engineered materials. The air-trapping ability of dandelion clocks immersed in water has been quantified, for the first time, in the laboratory. The breakthrough opens the door for the creation of new and sophisticated devices […]
Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Biosensors and Bioelectronics a successful test of a sensor for measuring hydrogen peroxide concentrations near cell membranes. The sensor has the potential to become a tool for new cancer therapies. Several processes in the human body are regulated by biochemical reactions involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). […]
Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle that harnesses mechanical instability for a variety of spine-inspired fast and strong soft machines. Unlike most current soft robots that are designed […]
Environmental noise is a major source of selection on animal sensory and communication systems. The acoustic signals of other animals represent particularly potent sources of noise for chorusing insects, frogs, and birds, which contend with a multi-species analog of the human “cocktail party problem” (i.e., our difficulty following speech in crowds). […]
News, Gut microbes in plant-eating ants help build tougher armor
Gut bacteria in a specious of herbivorous ant play a major role in processing nutrients that allow the ants to build tough exoskeletons, an international team of researchers has found. Researchers broke down which components in the bacteria contributed so their host could build a thicker armor. These findings could possibly […]
A fastener with a microscopic design that looks like tiny mushrooms could mean advances for everyday consumers and scientific fields. Currently available fasteners are called hook and loop fasteners and require harder, stiff material. In Biointerphases, researchers describe a design that can use softer materials and still be strong. The team believes a 3D mushroom […]
In a new study published in Nano Letters, a team led by Prof. Yu Shuhong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) reported a bio-inspired lotus-fiber-mimetic spiral structure bacterial cellulose (BC) hydrogel fiber with high strength, high toughness, excellent biocompatibility, good […]
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