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This paper describes an octopus bioinspired vacuum gripper for transportation or assembly of industrial parts. The previous gripper can grasp the object with flat, curvature, uneven, and grooved surface. However, octopus has the microstructure on suction cup, for example, cylindrical and radial grooves and micro bump. These structure is expected to improved flexibility and adhesive force of suction...
The mosquito proboscis is composed of seven micro parts. Among them, labrum and maxillae play important roles in insertion. The labrum is a central needle which sucks blood; two maxillae are left/right needles aside the labrum, respectively. They cooperatively move, i.e., one maxilla goes forward, labrum goes forward, another maxilla goes forward, successively. We noticed that the maxilla has a jagged...
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