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Tongues, tentacles and trunks: the biomechanics of movement in muscular‐hydrostats
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The means by which muscular-hydrostats produce elongation, shortening, bending and torsion are discussed.About:
This article is published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1985-04-01. It has received 785 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Muscular hydrostat & Hydrostatic skeleton.read more
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Multigait soft robot
Robert F. Shepherd,Filip Ilievski,Wonjae Choi,Stephen A. Morin,Adam A. Stokes,Aaron D. Mazzeo,Xin Chen,Michael Wang,George M. Whitesides +8 more
TL;DR: This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals that do not have hard internal skeletons, and illustrates an advantage of soft robotics.
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Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics.
TL;DR: Emerging soft-bodied robotic systems are reviewed to endow robots with new, bioinspired capabilities that permit adaptive, flexible interactions with unpredictable environments and to reduce the mechanical and algorithmic complexity involved in robot design.
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Soft robotics for chemists
Filip Ilievski,Aaron D. Mazzeo,Robert F. Shepherd,Xin Chen,George M. Whitesides,George M. Whitesides +5 more
TL;DR: This work aims to expand the methods and materials of chemistry and soft-materials science into applications in fully soft robots, and permits solutions of problems in manipulation, locomotion, and navigation, that are different from those used in conventional hard robotics.
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Soft robotics: Biological inspiration, state of the art, and future research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the capabilities of soft robots, describe examples from nature that provide biological inspiration, surveys the state of the art and outlines existing challenges in soft robot design, modelling, fabrication and control.
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The Evolution of Language
TL;DR: The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.
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Mechanical design in organisms
TL;DR: This book reviews biological structural materials and systems and their mechanically important features and demonstrates that function at any particular level of biological integration is permitted and controlled by structure at lower levels of integration.
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Some locomotory adaptations in mammals.
J. Maynard Smith,R. J. G. Savage +1 more
TL;DR: The shoulder muscles of the horse have a small mechanical advantage and are therefore adapted to produce rapid movements of the limb; these muscles in the armadillo have a larger mechanical advantage to produce slower movements, while exerting a greater force.
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The biology of the monotremes
TL;DR: High-speed cross-winding apparatus with two traverse motion devices for winding elongated materials, especially continuous filaments, into packages, particularly at filament velocities exceeding 1500 m/min.