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10/13/2018 / By Janine Acero

Cool tech: Engineers have invented a programmable, stretchable skin inspired by octopus camouflage

Engineers from Cornell University have developed a programmable texture-morphing synthetic skin inspired and modeled by octopus and cuttlefish camouflage. The team studied octopus and cuttlefish, alongside collaborator and cephalopod biologist Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), to develop the synthetic skin. The material takes the cue from the 3D bumps or papillae that octopuses […]

07/28/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers develop an artificial nervous system that gives robots the ability to sense touch

American and Korean researchers have given robots yet another sense once restricted to living organisms: the sense of touch. An article in Science Daily stated that the researchers developed artificial sensory nerves that work like the real thing. When attached to a cockroach’s leg, the artificial nerves can trigger the twitch reflex. The nerves are […]

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