How to imitate natural spring-loaded snapping movement without losing energy

ScienceDaily
Sep 3, 2020, 5:14 pm74 pts
Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists can do it, too - they discovered a way of efficiently converting elastic energy in a spring to kinetic energy for high-acceleration, extreme velocity movements as nature does it.

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