Top 5 Amazing Animal-Inspired Robots to watch in 2022

Amazing animal robots replace the need for having real-life animals for pets. These animal-inspired robots are being used to perform extraordinary tasks, as roboticists turn to the natural world for inspiration. The specific anatomy animals possess such as an Octopus's grippy suction cups or the flexible elephant's trunk are fast finding their applications in solving everyday problems. Here is the list of the top 5 Amazing Animal-Inspired Robots to watch in 2022.

Octobot: Octobot is the world's first completely soft, autonomous robot. Forget batteries, microchips, and computer control. Instead, this bot is 3D printed using soft silicone and powered by a chemical reaction. Similar soft bots could be used for sea rescue and military surveillance, as they can fit into narrow spaces and mold into their environment.

Airacuda: A remote-controlled soft bionic fish, a realistic animal robot, designed by Festo, is capable of escaping maneuvres using fluidic elastomer actuators. The soft muscle-like actuators generate curvature in a continuously deformable, vertebrate. This animal robot is more than a bio-mimicked version of its natural counterpart.

RoboBees: The RoboBees are tiny flying robots. These are fabricated from single sheets of carbon fiber, which are assembled and glued. Each RoboBee weighs as little as 0.003 ounces, it would take a dozen of these minuscule mini-bots to equal the weight of a jelly bean.

eMotion Butterflies: Beautiful robotic butterflies, with wingspans of 1.5 feet, all flutter close to each other in a tight space. The butterflies themselves are amazing feats of engineering, cramming in a microprocessor, sensors, and twin motors that beat their wings.

Bionicopter: A flying robot inspired by the flight of a dragonfly is a lightweight robot. The BionicOpter uses a bionic learning network to let the robot fly in all directions, flap its wings, fly forward and backward. It can handle more flight conditions than helicopters, motorised and non-motorized gliders combined.