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Can Langoustine Tails Replace Plastic Grippers?

Oliver2003

I just stumbled upon a research project that's as bizarre as it is brilliant. there I read that scientists have developed a robotic gripper using discarded langoustine tails. isn't it interesting? By combining the natural chitin exoskeleton with soft elastomers, they’ve built a functional manipulator that’s both sustainable and surprisingly effective at handling delicate objects.

This concept of 'Necrobotics' (like the mechanical use of spider legs we saw a while back) opens up some wild questions:

  1. How far can bio-derived materials actually go? Could we see 'grown' or 'recycled biological' parts in commercial robots?

  2. Are there cases where natural structures (like the hinge of a shell or the flexibility of a tail) simply outperform our best-engineered hinges?

  3. Durability and rot are the obvious issues. How do we solve for environmental sensitivity and repeatability before this leaves the lab?

I’d love to hear from the engineers and makers here. Is this just a lab novelty, or could we one day be 3D printing 'bio-hybrid' parts for our hobbyist projects?

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  • Here is a text that she wrote that can be read and is not in alien language

    “Scientists took leftover shrimp tails and turned them into tiny robot hands that can pick up stuff gently. They mixed the hard shell with soft squishy stuff.

    This makes me wonder:

    1.)  Can we make more robot parts from nature instead of metal and plastic?

    2.) Are some natural parts better than our robot parts?

    3.) How do we make sure these robot parts don’t rot or break if we use them for real?

    Is this just a fun experiment, or could we use it in real-life robots one day?”

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  • Here is a text that she wrote that can be read and is not in alien language

    “Scientists took leftover shrimp tails and turned them into tiny robot hands that can pick up stuff gently. They mixed the hard shell with soft squishy stuff.

    This makes me wonder:

    1.)  Can we make more robot parts from nature instead of metal and plastic?

    2.) Are some natural parts better than our robot parts?

    3.) How do we make sure these robot parts don’t rot or break if we use them for real?

    Is this just a fun experiment, or could we use it in real-life robots one day?”

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