Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK have built a prototype “hairy robotic gripper” that is inspired by the hairs found on ant jaws. Ants are not only excellent nest builders but are ...

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found. A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has ...

The fossil may shed new light on that evolutionary question. It's a Snap The animal kingdom has a new champ: the trap-jaw ant has the fastest known bite, besting even the great white shark.

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Their observations allowed them to piece together a model of how the jaws likely works. Researchers detected a feature of the ant's mandible joint that allows its jaws to lock open. Before the ...

Scientists have developed a ‘hairy robotic gripper’ inspired by ant jaws in a research project backed by Ocado and Amazon. The “versatile gripper” improves the capability of current robotic handling ...

When an insect steps on one of the trap’s many holes, hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws. Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is ...

"The African ones have jaws like knives; they'll eat babies ... photographing the minutiae of nature, especially ant life, in vivid, almost glamorous detail—a skill he acquired largely by ...

New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots ability to grip. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have studied the the movement of ants' hairy ...

Tiny insects but nature’s strongest lifters that can pull weight up to one thousand than their weight. Don’t go by their size ...