New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots grip. Researchers at the University of ...

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In tests with 30 different household objects, the addition of 'hairs' increased the prototype gripper's grasp success rate ...

By observing ants moving objects, researchers have developed an end effector that could make better robot grippers.

Copying ants could improve grip of robots, research suggests - A prototype ‘hairy gripper’ based on the mouths of ants has ...

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 ...

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