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Team of Mechanical Engineers Creates a Snail-Inspired Robot
A group of mechanical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been encouraged make a snail inspired robot. Snails are slow, slimy and sometimes irritating creatures, but the ability of the creature to move in any direction has become the cause for inspiration.
The creation is known as the RoboSnailtakes obtains signal from a living snail. Living snail has the slimy underbelly which has a sticky substance that allows the creature to stick to the surface and move across surfaces as uneven as tree bark or as smooth as glass. Snails can move horizontally, vertically and also upside down across these varied surfaces and have encouraged engineers to make such a robot that can help in invasive surgery and also in drilling of oil-wells.
Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said, "Looking at organisms like snails and clams can help us develop new robotic technologies because those kinds of animals have capabilities that current robots don't have". This type of biomechanical studies has proved to be advantageous for both mathematicians and biologists. Biologists can tell mathematical scientists that as the success of data are increasing biology become more and more counted. Mathematicians can use the tools of engineering and calculation to study this data and present new insights into the technique that the animals use to move.
A group of mechanical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been encouraged make a snail inspired robot. Snails are slow, slimy and sometimes irritating creatures, but the ability of the creature to move in any direction has become the cause for inspiration.
The creation is known as the RoboSnailtakes obtains signal from a living snail. Living snail has the slimy underbelly which has a sticky substance that allows the creature to stick to the surface and move across surfaces as uneven as tree bark or as smooth as glass. Snails can move horizontally, vertically and also upside down across these varied surfaces and have encouraged engineers to make such a robot that can help in invasive surgery and also in drilling of oil-wells.
Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said, "Looking at organisms like snails and clams can help us develop new robotic technologies because those kinds of animals have capabilities that current robots don't have". This type of biomechanical studies has proved to be advantageous for both mathematicians and biologists. Biologists can tell mathematical scientists that as the success of data are increasing biology become more and more counted. Mathematicians can use the tools of engineering and calculation to study this data and present new insights into the technique that the animals use to move.
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