A Biomimetic Soft Lens Controlled by Electrooculographic Signal

Biomimetic soft matter

Biomimetic soft multifunctional miniature aquabots.

Engineered locomotive systems are widespread on the macro scale (e.g., planes, trains, automobiles), yet miniaturized mobile systems are largely limited to the research lab. In particular, integration of specific functions such as sensing or drug delivery into a small robot is a great challenge. The ability to miniaturize parts affecting motion, such as MEMS-based components and electroactive p...

Swimming like algae: biomimetic soft artificial cilia.

Cilia are used effectively in a wide variety of biological systems from fluid transport to thrust generation. Here, we present the design and implementation of artificial cilia, based on a biomimetic planar actuator using soft-smart materials. This actuator is modelled on the cilia movement of the alga Volvox, and represents the cilium as a piecewise constant-curvature robotic actuator that ena...

Signal restoration by statistical soft morphology

A new set of non linear signal and image processing operators is presented. Their definition is based on the introduction of the statistical properties of Bayesian reconstruction in soft morphological operators. Statistical soft operators represent a trade-off between the noise cleaning properties of statistical morphology and the shape preservation properties of soft morphology. The main chara...

Biomimetic soft lithography on curved nanostructured surfaces

0167-9317/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2012.03.013 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (V. Auzelyt In this paper a nano-molding process using a nature-created master is demonstrated. The eye of night moth Agotis exclamationis having 100 nm-scale structures on a curved surface is used as biomimetic master mold from which nanos...