Abstract: A metamorphic mechanism is able to change its form, topology and configuration automatically in operation process without need of disassembling and reassembling. But it seems difficult to a ...

Scientists who have explored leveraging penguins' "rocket" properties to create new propulsion technologies with high maneuverability and improved hydrodynamic efficiency, are creating a ...

Penguins may waddle comically when on land, but are rocket-like in terms of their sub-aqua motion. That motion has inspired a novel propulsion technology. Flavio Noca, a graduate student of Caltech’s ...

WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 14, 2013 -- Back in 1991, Nature published a picture from the IMAX movie Antarctica, along with the caption: "Emperor penguins may be waddling jokes on land, but underwater they ...

Leg design is key to the dynamic locomotion of humanoid robots. To increase a humanoid robot's locomotion performance, the inertia of its leg needs to be reduced. One of the effective solutions is to ...

A common CAD operation is to take a 2D shape and extrude it into a 3D shape. But what happens if you take a gear and replicate it along a sphere and then rotate it and do it again? As you can see in ...