Researchers found that the insects' needle-like proboscis can function as a dispenser nozzle for 3D printing machines.
D printing has become a big thing at NAG HQ. Don’t believe us? Come through to the office and check out our little print farm that takes up a whole section on the ground floor. But for those of you ...
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Mosquito proboscises turned into ultra-fine 3D printing nozzles
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that allows the proboscises, or ...
(A) Wearable device for the antennae: (i) A 3D model of the cockroach’s head was used as a reference to design the wearable device for the antennae. (ii) Two hooking mechanisms were incorporated to ...
Biomimicry and 3D printing have come together in new swarming ant and butterfly robots that act very much like their insect counterparts, the inventions of German robotics firm Festo. The company ...
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