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Pa Scotland Reporter

UNBELIEVABLE: Copying ants could improve grip of robots research suggests - Caught on Camera

The robotic gripper is inspired by the strength and efficiency of the mouths of ants (Alamy/PA) -

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found.

A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested with “excellent results”, according to a team from the University of Edinburgh.

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