A Star-Nose-Inspired Bionic Soft Robot for Nonvisual Spatial Detection and Reconstruction

Abstract

Star-Nose-Inspired Bionic Soft Robot

This image portrays a bionic soft robot inspired by the star-nosed mole, equipped with a PDMS-PET cylindrical tactile sensor array based on bilayer single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerators, mimicking the appendage surrounded by Eimer’s organs and the muscle tissue of the mole’s nose. It detects object distance and shapes effectively, achieving non-visual three-dimensional spatial detection and reconstruction. More details can be found in article number 2400601 by Yunqi Cao, Dibo Hou, and co-workers.