Army laboratories collaborate on octopus-inspired suction cups
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Natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis can unveil points of weakness in man-made infrastructure, and now robots are being called in to help. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, or ECBC, here, are developing suction cups that could be placed on robots designed to perform tasks […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-laboratories-collaborate-on-octopus-inspired-suction-cups-46646/
Natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis can unveil points of weakness in man-made infrastructure, and now robots are being called in to help. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, or ECBC, here, are developing suction cups that could be placed on robots designed to perform tasks […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-laboratories-collaborate-on-octopus-inspired-suction-cups-46646/