A new approach to simulating biologically inspired robotics can cut the design and training of tactile robots from eighteen months to two weeks, new research suggests. Published in Cyborg & Bionic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...

Baby elephant Navann had never seen a cat before. When one caught his eye while he was walking, he couldn't help but double-back to investigate. Sure, their first encounter could have been more ...

In A Nutshell Elephant whiskers have “physical intelligence”: Three built-in gradients (geometry, porosity, and stiffness) ...

An elephant’s trunk can pick up a single tortilla chip without breaking it, then moments later lift a barbell weighing tens ...

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Nick and Sally keep cool in the desert. / Elephants' trunks are just like hands. The Cat takes Nick and Sally to the Dizzle-dazzle Desert to learn how to keep cool. They learn that some animals are ...