Industrial design optimisation for 3D printed biomimetic grippers in titanium alloy

• Main Authors: Thallemer, A., Diensthuber, D., Rogler, B., Kostadinov, A., Danzer, M.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biomimetics; Innovation; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88564; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45813
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nature has always inspired the creative mind, to a lesser or greater extent. Introduced around the 1950s, Biomimetics served as a systematic method to treat the natural world as a ‘pattern book’ for technical solutions with the aim to create innovative products. Unfortunately, this technique is pron...