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Home » Biophysics and bioengineering » Ants’ hairy jaws help robots to get a grip

Ants’ hairy jaws help robots to get a grip

29 Mar 2025 Michael Banks
Ants on a rope
Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock)
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK have built a prototype “hairy robotic gripper

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