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Robot Excavation and Manipulation of Geometrically Cohesive Granular Media
Laura Treers, Daniel Soto, Joonha Hwang +2
Construction throughout history typically assumes that its blueprints and building blocks are pre-determined. However, recent work suggests that alternative approaches can enable n…
Toward Task Capable Active Matter: Learning to Avoid Clogging in Confined Collectives via Collisions
Kehinde O. Aina, Ram Avinery, Hui-Shun Kuan +3
Social organisms which construct nests consisting of tunnels and chambers necessarily navigate confined and crowded conditions. Unlike low-density collectives like bird flocks and…
Climbing, falling and jamming during ant locomotion in confined environments
Nick Gravish, Daria Monaenkova, Michael A. D. Goodisman +1
Locomotion emerges from effective interactions of an individual with its environment. Principles of biological terrestrial locomotion have been discovered on unconfined vertical an…