Speculative Species

In Speculative Evolution, we envisioned how species could be further developed to increase their resilience based on scientific publications on synthetic biology, genetic engineering and robotics, and formulated text prompts to create AI-generated images using DALL-E. As a result, each speculative species in the environment has a backstory rooted in real-life scenarios.
 
 


Beetle Robot
Beetle Robot
2018ionic polymer-metal composite actuator actuated
Laboratory research by Zhao et all., 2018
2054

Lineage of the 26 species from a total of 30

    • Beetle Robot, Species 69-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (69-1)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-1-1)
    • Beetle Robot, Species 69-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (69-2)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-2-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (69-2-1)
        • Beetle Robot, Species 69-2-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-2-1-1)
    • Beetle Robot, Species 69-4Samsung G955F, Android 9, Stuttgart, Germany (69-4)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-4-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, , China (69-4-1)
    • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5Samsung G955F, Android 9, Stuttgart, Germany (69-5)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1Samsung A225M, Android 13, Brasília, Brazil (69-5-1)
        • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-1Samsung S911B, Android 14, São Paulo, Brazil (69-5-1-1)
          • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-1-1, Android 12, São Paulo, Brazil (69-5-1-1-1)
        • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-2Samsung G955U, Android 9, Basel, Switzerland (69-5-1-2)
          • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-2-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-1-2-1)
          • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-2-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-1-2-2)
        • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-3Samsung G955U, Android 9, , China (69-5-1-3)
          • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-1-3-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (69-5-1-3-1)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-2)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-3Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-3)
        • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-3-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-3-1)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-4Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-5-4)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-5Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (69-5-5)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-5-6Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (69-5-6)
    • Beetle Robot, Species 69-6Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (69-6)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-6-1Samsung G986U1, Android 13, Monterrey, Mexico (69-6-1)
    • Beetle RobotSamsung G986U1, Android 13, Monterrey, Mexico (69-6-1)
      • Beetle Robot, Species 69-7-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (69-7-1)

Biomimetic Beetle-Inspired Flapping Air Vehicle Actuated by Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuator

Zhao et al. Hindawi (2018). doi:10.1155/2018/3091579
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/abb/2018/3091579/

Abstract

During the last decades, the ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) received much attention because of its potential capabilities, such as large displacement and flexible bending actuation. In this paper, a biomimetic flapping air vehicle was proposed by combining the superiority of ionic polymer metal composite with the bionic beetle flapping principle. The blocking force was compared between casted IPMC and IPMC. The flapping state of the wing was investigated and the maximum displacement and flapping angle were measured. The flapping displacement under different voltage and frequency was tested. The flapping displacement of the wing and the support reaction force were measured under different frequency by experiments. The experimental results indicate that the high voltage and low frequency would get large flapping displacement.
Wings of beetle. Beetle-Inspired Flapping Mechanism Design Beetle flight depends on the control of the chest elastic movement and the force acting on the wings, as shown in Figure 1. The flapping way of the wings is similar to a tuning fork resonance effect. A beetle does not directly flap its wings, but it uses alternating movement of two groups of chest muscle to produce deformation, as shown in Figure 2. Through this way, the wings and chest resonate to produce high-frequency large flapping cycle.
Schematic of beetle flapping bionics. The flapping wings of the insects have two kinds of motions: the longitudinal stroke and the rotation of the wings. In this study, we just consider the stroke of wings. When the wing flaps, the angular velocity of stroking is not exactly a simple harmonic motion but a complicated nonlinear motion. In the process of acceleration and deceleration, can be treated as simple harmonic motion.
Displacement measurement system. The experimental setup of the blocking force measurement system was also established. The blocking force was measured by a load cell (XH10-5 g) and data acquisition was done by using National Instruments™ PXI system with PXIe-6361 (DAQ).