ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2022
Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators.
Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Dead Matter, Living Machines: Repurposing Crustaceans' Abdomen Exoskeleton for Bio-Hybrid Robots.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing.Science advances · 2025Article
- Plant Bridge: Connecting Separated Objects Using Plant Growth.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A fractal gripper with switchable mode for geometry adaptive manipulation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From AIBO to robosphere. Organizational interdependencies in sustainable robotics.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in Sensor-Actuator Hybrid Soft Systems: Core Advantages, Intelligent Applications, and Future Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Review
- A Spider-Joint-like Bionic Actuator with an Approximately Triangular Prism Shape.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Designs perfected through evolution have informed bioinspired animal-like robots that mimic the locomotion of cheetahs and the compliance of jellyfish; biohybrid robots go a step further by incorporating living materials directly into engineered systems. Bioinspiration and biohybridization have led to new, exciting research, but humans have relied on biotic materials-non-living materials derived from living organisms-since their early ancestors wore animal hides as clothing and used bones for tools. In this work, an inanimate spider is repurposed as a ready-to-use actuator requiring only a single facile fabrication step, initiating the area of "necrobotics" in which biotic materials are used as robotic components. The unique walking mechanism of spiders-relying on hydraulic pressure rather than antagonistic muscle pairs to extend their legs-results in a necrobotic gripper that naturally resides in its closed state and can be opened by applying pressure. The necrobotic gripper is capable of grasping objects with irregular geometries and up to 130% of its own mass. Furthermore, the gripper can serve as a handheld device and innately camouflages in outdoor environments. Necrobotics can be further extended to incorporate biotic materials derived from other creatures with similar hydraulic mechanisms for locomotion and articulation.
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