The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

A new study suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk -- its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the ...

CREATE EPFL CC BY SA 4.0/Cover Images Researchers at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) have created a robot elephant that can go ten pin bowling. The twinkle-trunked bot does have a ...

And at the trunk tip, it’s the skin that does most of the straining, not the muscle, mathematical modeling experiments suggest. Scientists have long studied the muscles in elephant trunks (SN: 3 ...

Elephants are strong enough to knock over trees. But why do they do it, and how does it benefit the ecosystem?

Conversely, the elephant trunk is flexible across its whole length: the coordinated contractions of the muscles result in twisting, bending, lengthening, shortening and stiffening, without any ...

One of the most remarkable body parts in the animal kingdom is the elephant trunk. It is extremely muscular and strong, containing far more muscles than the entire human body, and yet it is very ...

EPFL researchers have pioneered a 3D-printable, programmable lattice structure for robotics that mimics the vast diversity of ...

This investigation into how an elephant’s 40,000 trunk muscles work together will be invaluable for developing new, versatile robots, says Cecilia Laschi, a roboticist at the National University ...

Scientists say elephants' trunks — capable of grasping a single blade of grass but can also carry nearly 600 pounds — are incredible inspiration for the next generation of bio-inspired robots.

Researchers at EPFL have created a robot elephant that can go bowling. The team led by Josie Hughes from the Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab, part of EPFL's School of Engineering, has ...