Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK have built a prototype “hairy robotic gripper” that is inspired by the hairs found on ant jaws. Ants are not only excellent nest builders but are ...

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 ants has ...

When an insect steps on one of the trap’s many holes, hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws. Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is ...

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 ...

The fossil may shed new light on that evolutionary question. It's a Snap The animal kingdom has a new champ: the trap-jaw ant has the fastest known bite, besting even the great white shark.

"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 ...

Mimicking ants' hairy jaws could make robotic systems much more effective at picking objects up and moving them around. A prototype "hairy robotic gripper" has been developed by the University of ...

New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots ability to grip. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have studied the the movement of ants' hairy ...

Ants serve as models in all kinds of studies ... legs holding on to one edge, jaws gripping the other. And then? They wait. As evening comes on and the humidity rises, more workers arrive from ...

Tiny insects but nature’s strongest lifters that can pull weight up to one thousand than their weight. Don’t go by their size ...

That model suggested that the split ensures that the stress on the joint between the mandible and the ant’s head is zero. The study authors found that if the energy generated by the jaw closing is ...