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Pill Bug Gripper: Biological Organisms as End Effectors for Robots

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An end effector is a device that attaches to the end of a robotic arm to enable it to handle tasks at hand. Did you know that you can use living organisms as end effectors? Josephine Galipon, Shoya Shimizu, and Kenjiro Tadakuma have written a paper to demonstrate how pill bugs can work as functional grippers without getting harmed. The below video shows how this will work:

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