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Re: Manipulators: Claws are old news!

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Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc
pretty cool but looks like it needs a claw at the end..
if the engineers who developed this heard you say that they would slap you upside the head! :^)

the whole idea is this is better than a claw - a good example of biomimicry - copying the way that bilogical creatures do things, the way that birds fly, fish swim, bugs climb walls, or in this case the way an elephant can pick up a peanut, or pull a tree out of the ground with the same manipulator (its trunk).
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