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Another biomimetic robot: Now a locust

Apparently, I becomes possible to create proteins from scratch already. Things become interesting...

Anisotropic frictional properties for crawling locomotion.

Looks very interesting: Anisotropic stiffness and tensile strenght, actuation, ...

A whole collection of articles on biomimetic materials science. Definitely worth a look.

interesting article and interview - for our computer guy to read: Francesco, Marek - but maybe even Tobias for the bioinspiration .... (LS)

Might be an interesting source of inspiration for research on evolution, cooperation etc.

A study in the January Physical Review E suggests that a sleep-wake cycle, allowing the brain to focus on one task at a time, may be the most efficient way to operate. The researcher shows mathematically that processing a continuously changing resource--s

could anyone check what is behind their technology? anything really new or just a business case?

These guys from caltech work on a minituarized, automated microscope. Could be interesting for any type of human space exploration.

not sure how scientific this is since from the independent but ...

A lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that can almost be called life.

So far only in german: A guy has on 10% of the usual brain mass. But lives without big problems. The study should be published in LANCET.