Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...

Their observations allowed them to piece together a model of how the jaws likely works. Researchers detected a feature of the ant's mandible joint that allows its jaws to lock open. Before the ...

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found. A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ...

Key to the gripper’s success is replication of an ant’s hairy jaws, which improves the capability of current robotic handling systems with minimal increase in complexity or cost. According to its ...

"The African ones have jaws like knives; they'll eat babies ... photographing the minutiae of nature, especially ant life, in vivid, almost glamorous detail—a skill he acquired largely by ...

But, the tiny insects have taught researchers in Scotland big lessons. New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots ability to grip. Researchers at the ...