Serpentine robots o er advantages over traditional mobile robots and robot arms because they have enhanced exibility and reachability, especially in convoluted environments. These robots are well suited to inspect large space-fairing truss structures such as the future space station and can also be used to inspect the Space Shuttle cargo bay before launch. Serpentine mechanisms o er unique capa...

Robots that mimic the natural motions of animals have long been of interest in science and engineering. The primary engineering interest in such robots is in having them conduct tasks that require complicated locomotion and cognition. Designating an outdoor mobile robot is more challenging work than the indoor mobile robot because it has the capability of operation at all weather condition and ...

Apical extracellular matrix filling the lumen controls the morphology and geometry of epithelial tubes during development, yet the regulation of luminal protein composition and its role in tube morphogenesis are not well understood. Here we show that an endosomal-retrieval machinery consisting of Rab9, retromer and actin nucleator WASH (Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein and SCAR Homolog) regulat...

Machine locomotion using wheels, tracks or legs is common where as generating locomotion in a limbless, wheelless system is more challenging. Wheeled locomotion and legged locomotion have already been studied by many researchers in detail. On the contrary the limbless locomotion has drawn very limited degree of interest. In limbless locomotion (of a serpent) the cyclic changes in the body shape...

In many MEMS devices, the mechanical suspension method usually creates a problem of how it should be suspended versus the design area and structure complexity. Simple designs may be able to keep complexity level down, however they do not usually hit the targeted specifications. Serpentine suspension proves to be very useful in such cases. In this paper, three serpentine suspensions are discusse...

Currently, 55 serpentine areas have been determined in Turkey. More than 60 Ni-accumulators and more 43 serpentine-endemics are known from these areas. Within our field studies the Mediterranean phytogeographic region, 8 Viola taxa distributed their respective soil samples were collected. Cd, Cu, Zn concentrations of plant investigated. After digested microwave, metal measurements made using a ...

Lithographically defined electrical interconnects with thin, filamentary serpentine layouts have been widely explored for use in stretchable electronics supported by elastomeric substrates. We present a systematic and thorough study of buckling physics in such stretchable serpentine microstructures, and a strategic design of serpentine layout for ultra-stretchable electrode, via analytical mode...