Exoskeleton

Baby animals are often adorable, but this belies the fact that many are born with some pretty intense survival skills. This is especially true for creatures that don’t nurture their young since newborns have to fend for themselves as soon as they are brought into the world. A new study…

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IMAGE: Someone using an exoskeleton leg capable of thinking and moving on its own using sophisticated artificial intelligence technology approaches a stairs view more  Credit: University of Waterloo Robotics researchers are developing exoskeletons and prosthetic legs capable of thinking and making control decisions on their own using sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI)…

Allen Pan, who runs the Sufficiently Advanced YouTube channel, has published a new video showcasing how anyone can wield a giant anime sword with a little help from an exoskeleton. In an approximately 13-minute video, Pan discusses how he achieved the ultimate goal: swinging a generic replica of Cloud Strife's…

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Weaver ants are a mean bunch. They’re not very big, but they’re highly aggressive and extremely territorial. Their main weapons are a pair of ferocious jaws; after they bite they also like to spray formic acid into the wound, just to be jerks. They go after other insects with particular…

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Smithsonian Institution has discovered a dense layer of biogenic high-magnesium calcite in the exoskeletons of major workers of the leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex echinatior; they’ve also found that this armor accumulates rapidly as ant workers mature and that the biomineral…

A fossil specimen of Kylinxia zhangi found in China’s Yunnan province. Photo: Huang and Zeng / Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology / AFP The fossil has three smaller eyes in a row on its head, with two larger eyes directly behind The creature, that lived about 520 million years…