#softbot

[wrenwhite]

Myrna for JacksTheMannequin at AF.

[honeycharme]

various headshots for folks on toyhouse!!

[gakuwalked]

friendly fire aimed at @ghostaris <3

[closedspeciesteahouse]

lmfao softbots continues to be a shitshow by banning traditional art from MYOs because you HAVE to submit a transparent file, god the admins are such shitheads they hate poor people so much

[csvent-2]

Oh my god, I knew the Softbot mods were money hungry, but charging $65 for a mutation MYO slot has me absolutely dead. And its not even mutations that would warrant costing that much, its melanism, albinism and other PATTERN based mutations, this is ridiculous. I hope nobody coughs up the money for these, it is SERIOUSLY not worth it.

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[csmeaner]

Not the softbots admin defending the queen of england and telling everyone they shouldn’t celebrate her death lmfao wat

SCREENSHOTS MOTHERFUCKERS

screenshot the announcements or fuck off

[csscreenshots]

Compilation of various species' response to the Queen of England's death

Chowlings

Chimereons

Softbots

Driftlings

[csmeanerr]

Bruh the softbot mods have such a stick up their asses about OTHER people's softbot MYO designs but dont gaf about their own MYOs, like... Its so easy to go to one of their recent mod MYOs and point out stuff that wouldnt be allowed if you were just a person in the community and not a mod

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[bearvamps]

Some Softbot watercolor paintings I’ve done over the last year! I need to do Faust soon so that the primary color trifecta is complete lol

(The fullres and processes of these are available on my Patreon <3)

[roboticsappreciationsociety]

by Kaitlyn Landram

Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New material provides breakthrough in 'softbotics'

Carnegie Mellon University engineers have developed a soft material with metal-like conductivity and self-healing properties that is the first to maintain enough electrical adhesion to support digital electronics and motors. This advance, published in Nature Electronics, marks a breakthrough in softbotics and the fields of robotics, electronics, and medicine.

At Carnegie Mellon University, softbotics represents a new generation of soft machines and robots manufactured by multi-functional materials that have integrated sensing, actuation, and intelligence.

The research team introduced the material, a liquid-metal filled organogel composite with high electrical conductivity, low stiffness, high stretchability, and self-healing properties in three applications:

damage-resistant snail-inspired robot

modular circuit to power a toy car

reconfigurable bioelectrode to measure muscle activity on different locations of the body

"This is the first soft material that can maintain a high-enough electrical adhesion to support digital electronics and power-hungry devices," said lead author Carmel Majidi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering.  "We have demonstrated you can actually power motors with it."

Read more.

[amakai]

Some more art fight attacks…I'm refusing to let life ruin this event for me again…cuz it always does every single year. Demon belongs to my friend TomboyKei Blobae belongs to Dovalore on AF Teal Softbot belongs to FuchsiaPlume on AF Pastel Dainty belongs to ChiharuYume on AF Space Marling belongs to AmonDrawsArt on AF You can find me and my kiddos >> here << I always do my best to attack back when I can but I cannot promise that I will.

[honeycharme]

part of a prompt entry for a closed species group im a part of !

Sumi-Ei is plagued by the whispers of rumors that aren't even there…

[jcmarchi]

450 Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/450-million-year-old-organism-finds-new-life-in-softbotics-technology-org/

450 Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics - Technology Org

In collaboration with palaeontologists from Spain and Poland, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of a pleurocystitid. This marine organism existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem.

Pleurocystitid fossil and pleurocystitid robot replica. Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research seeks to broaden modern perspective of animal design and movement by introducing a new a field of study — paleobionics — aimed at using Softbotics, robotics with flexible electronics and soft materials, to understand the biomechanical factors that drove evolution using extinct organisms.

“Softbotics is another approach to inform science using soft materials to construct flexible robot limbs and appendages,” said Carmel Majidi, the lead author of the study. “Many fundamental principles of biology and nature can only fully be explained if we look back at the evolutionary timeline of how animals evolved. We are building robot analogues to study how locomotion has changed.”

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With humans’ time on earth representing only 0.007% of the planet’s history, the modern-day animal kingdom that influences understanding of evolution and inspires today’s mechanical systems is only a fraction of all creatures that have ever existed.

Image credit: CMU

Using fossil evidence to guide their design and a combination of 3D-printed elements and polymers to mimic the flexible columnar structure of the moving appendage, the team demonstrated that pleurocystitids were likely able to move over the sea bottom using a muscular stem to push themselves forward.

Despite the absence of a current day equivalent, — echinoderms have since evolved to include modern day starfish and sea urchins — pleurocystitids have been of interest to paleontologists due to their pivotal role in echinoderm evolution.

Image credit: CMU

The researchers determined that wide sweeping movements were likely the most effective motion and that increasing the length of the stem significantly increased the animals’ speed without forcing it to exert more energy.

Now that the researchers have demonstrated that they can use Softbotics to engineer extinct organisms, they hope to explore other animals, like the first organism that could travel from sea to land — something that can’t be studied in the same way using conventional robot hardware.

“Bringing a new life to something that existed nearly 500 million years ago is exciting in and of itself,” said mechanical engineer and study co-author Phil LeDuc. “But we aren’t just looking at fossils in the ground, we are trying to better understand life through working with paleontologists.”

Source: NSF

[cavenewstimes]

Reviving History: 450-Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics

Carnegie Mellon scientists, teaming up with Spanish and Polish paleontologists, have actually developed a soft robotic design of the pleurocystitid, an ancient echinoderm, to check out evolutionary biomechanics and motivate brand-new robotic styles. Above is a pleurocystitid fossil and pleurocystitid robotic reproduction. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering Scientists from…

[csvent-2]

[Softbots] I've been in Softbots for about a year and a half, and as much as I love the lore and world, it really sucks to see the difference with the owner/mods and the guest designers :/

I bought a design from a guest designer that I really love, but they were sold for $25-$35 which really was a shock for me. If one of the owners/mods did the exact same design they would've gone for $75-$100, which is ridiculous imo. The guest designs are usually ignored and are raffled off, but any design from the owner/s are bought immediately for a high price.

It's kinda sad to see, I wish guest designs would be taken more seriously by the community.

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