An elephant’s trunk can haul a felled log across a clearing and, moments later, ...
The elephant's trunk has long been studied by engineers seeking to understand how it performs both powerful and delicate ...
A new study shows how elephant trunk skin balances strength and sensitivity, offering clues that could help engineers build ...
Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...
A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...