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Watch how a massive elephant lift its handler with its trunk

The trunk of an elephant is one of the most versatile and strong tools in nature. This video features a large elephant using ...
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Precise enough to pick fruit, powerful enough to lift a person—how the elephant trunk may revolutionize robotics

Researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk—precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at ...
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There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

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 ...
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Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch

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 ...