An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because ...
An elephant’s trunk can pick up a single tortilla chip without breaking it, then moments later lift a barbell weighing tens of kilograms. For an animal with notoriously limited close-range vision and ...
A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...