Jahir Argote-Gerald

jahirargote.bsky.social

14 February 2025 19:52

Earthworm-inspired crawling robot 🪱 uses modular soft skins with bristles to mimic friction control, enabling efficient movement through tight spaces. Great for pipe inspection & soil sensing! 🚀 #Robotics #BioInspired #SoftRobotics

Bose-Einstein-Kondensat

mwnautilus.bsky.social

14 February 2025 19:09

A #bird-inspired #biomimetic #robot that can dynamically perch on complex surfaces & grasp irregular objects in arboreal environments: doi.org/10.1126/scir... #robotics #hackerspace #automation #DIYtech

🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis

yutytyrant.bsky.social

14 February 2025 17:42

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Baminornis zhenghensis From Late Jurassic Fujian province, China, "Fujian bird" is a newly described small avialan and the oldest known short-tailed bird, pushing the evolution of "modern" looking birds back by 20 million years. It was likely capable of flight Art by Zhao Chuang

pat-sweeney.bsky.social

14 February 2025 17:39

Why do bats hang upside down to sleep? "As bats evolved from land-bound mammals to taking flight, they started with gliding like flying squirrels," The ancestors of modern bats might have climbed tall trees and dropped to glide between the trunks www.livescience.com/animals/why-...

Cephalopods Daily

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14 February 2025 17:34

🐙📷Albert Kang (inaturalist.ca/observations...), louvanhaeren (inaturalist.ca/observations...), Julian Hsu (inaturalist.ca/observations...), hokoonwong (inaturalist.ca/observations...)