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Soft Robot Tentacle Can Lasso an Ant Without Harming It
jan_jes writes: A soft robot tentacle, developed by a team from Iowa State University, can curl itself into a circle with a radius of just 200 micrometers. It was capable of capturing an ant without harming it, and the tentacle was also able to grasp the egg of a fish. Such miniature soft robots could be useful for microsurgery. The lassoing motion and low force exerted by the tentacle could be an advantage in endovascular operations, for example, where the target for surgery is reached through blood vessels. They describe their findings in Scientific Reports.
So how long before it shows up on a porn site?
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
...DO NOT welcome our new, tentacular, inner-body-exploring robotic overlords. Ick.
But if they turn out to be the effective solution for a life-threatening health condition, I'll find a way to cope.
University of Illinois: guys we just invented a process to unscramble an egg. Fire up that nobel prize and tell ken to keep his quiches out of the breakroom microwave..
Iowa State University: not so fast losers, we just invented an ant catching robot tentacle.
NIST so...uh...hows that grant money working out...did you guys hear about that new horizons probe? heck of a lot of science there...
Iowa State University Illinois just figured out how to ruin breakfast for the tenured faculty and I invented ant hentai
Good people go to bed earlier.
Not that impressive...I can stomp on an ant with all of my fat ass might and the thing gets up, slightly stunned, and continues on its way.