Ninjabot strikes with force of a mantis shrimp
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Although mantis shrimp have captured the public's fascination with their ability to strike and kill their prey with stunning force, the underlying mechanisms involved in the high-speed strike are not fully understood by scientists. So a team of researchers, S. M. Cox, et al., from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has designed and built a robot, called Ninjabot, that imitates the mantis shrimp's strike and may help reveal the kinematics behind the powerful maneuver.