Variable stiffness soft robotic gripper: design, development, and prospects

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 January 2024 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by Local science and technology development fund projects guided by the central government (206Z1807G) | Natural Science Foundation Key projects of Hebei Province (E2021203125) | Joint fund of Science & Technology Department of Liaoning Province and State Key Laboratory of Robotics, China (2021KF2206)

Authors: Yu Shan | Yanzhi Zhao | Haobo Wang | Liming Dong | Changlei Pei | Zhaopeng Jin | Yue Sun | Tao Liu

Mechanically controlled robotic gripper with bistability for fast and adaptive grasping

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 January 2023 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11672058)

Authors: Xianyang Cai | Bin Tang

LiDAR-driven spiking neural network for collision avoidance in autonomous driving

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 November 2021 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Albert Shalumov | Raz Halaly | Elishai Ezra Tsur

Does rotation increase the acoustic field of view? Comparative models based on CT data of a live dolphin versus a dead dolphin

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 May 2023 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Chong Wei | Dorian Houser | Christine Erbe | Eszter Mátrai | Darlene R Ketten | James J Finneran

Using hardware models to quantify sensory data acquisition across the rat vibrissal array

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 December 2007 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Venkatesh Gopal | Mitra J Z Hartmann

A decoupled Bayesian method for snake robot control in unstructured environment

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 November 2023 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 23K16976)

Authors: Yuanyuan Jia | Shugen Ma

A fast-starting mechanical fish that accelerates at 40 m s⁻²

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 September 2010 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: J Conte | Y Modarres-Sadeghi | M N Watts | F S Hover | M S Triantafyllou

A dynamic double helical band as a model for cardiac pumping

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 June 2009 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Anna Grosberg | Morteza Gharib

Range dependent characteristics in the head-related transfer functions of a bat-head cast: part 1. Monaural characteristics

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 December 2012 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: S Kim | R Allen | D Rowan

Range dependent characteristics in the head-related transfer functions of a bat-head cast: part 2. Binaural characteristics

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 December 2012 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: S Kim | R Allen | D Rowan

Inertia may limit efficiency of slow flapping flight, but mayflies show a strategy for reducing the power requirements of loiter

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 March 2009 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: James R Usherwood

Fractal mechanism of basin of attraction in passive dynamic walking

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 September 2020 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP15KT0015)

Authors: Kota Okamoto | Shinya Aoi | Ippei Obayashi | Hiroshi Kokubu | Kei Senda | Kazuo Tsuchiya

Crab-inspired compliant leg design method for adaptive locomotion of a multi-legged robot

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 March 2022 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181270) | National Natural Science Foundation of China (61873066) | National Key R&D Program of China (2018AAA0103004)

Authors: Jun Zhang | Qi Liu | Jingsong Zhou | Aiguo Song

Biomimetic lizard robot for adapting to Martian surface terrain

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 May 2024 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52075217)

Authors: Guangming Chen | Long Qiao | Zhenwen Zhou | Xiang Lei | Meng Zou | Lutz Richter | Aihong Ji

Navigation by magnetic signatures in a realistic model of Earth’s magnetic field

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 May 2024 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR - FA9550-20-1-0399)

Authors: Jeffrey P Gill | Brian K Taylor

A bio-originated porous template for the fabrication of very long, inorganic nanotubes and nanowires

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 June 2010 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: F Mumm | M Kemell | M Leskelä | P Sikorski

Analyzing the kinematics and longitudinal aerodynamics of a four-wing bionic aircraft

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 March 2024 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Lishuang Wang | Zhiwei Shi | Xi Geng | Shengxiang Tong | Zhen Chen

Simulation and analysis of prismatic bioinspired compound lenses for solar cells: II. Multifrequency analysis

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 March 2011 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Francesco Chiadini | Vincenzo Fiumara | Antonio Scaglione | Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Development and characterization of a passive, bio-inspired flow-tracking sensor

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 1 March 2023 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Research funded by NATO SPS (GS638)

Authors: J N Galler | D E Rival

Optimal propulsive flapping in Stokes flows

JOURNAL ARTICLE published 16 December 2013 in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Authors: Loïc Was | Eric Lauga