Unguitractor apparatus in a mechanical beetle leg

• Main Author: Chng, Shawn Lek Gin
• Other Authors: Hirotaka Sato
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157359
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The unguitractor apparatus is an energy saving microstructure present within the pretarsus of a beetle’s leg. The presence of this apparatus enables the beetle to expend less energy holding on to a substrate by reducing the amount of force exerted by the muscles to maintain the claw position. The ai...