The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab

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Our biologists, physicists, computer scientists & mathematicians investigate the evolution & development of Life’s complexity 🐊 🐍 🦎 @genevunige @UNIGEnews

University of Geneva (CH) lanevol.org Joined August 2021

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @LANEVOL Oct 20

A tutorial movie for NewtonBioMorphX, our open-source framework for the mechanics of morphogenesis: from generating a mesh to watching a tissue fold into crocodile-like head scales, entirely from the interface.

lanevol.org/projects/newto…

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @LANEVOL Oct 15

NewtonBioMorphX is out in Computer Physics Communications: a GPU-accelerated, open-source framework for simulating tissue-scale mechanics of morphogenesis.

It unifies growth, multilayer mechanics, plasticity, viscoelasticity and contact.

doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.…

The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @LANEVOL Oct 12

Last week, we were 20 biologists, physicists and biochemists at the Fondation des Treilles. We had fantastic discussions on the evolution and development of camouflage and body transparency in vertebrates.

Great to see Vincent Laudet again coming all the way from Okinawa in Japan.

Manfred Schartl in great shape, as always.

The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @LANEVOL Sep 29

What is Gonzo? I told Popular Science the clue may be in his tuft: real hair would make him a mammal; feathers would point toward the dinosaur–bird lineage. I love that a Muppet can invite such a curious look at life.

popsci.com/science/what-i…

www.popsci.com What kind of animal is Gonzo? Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?)

The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @LANEVOL Sep 1

🐘➡️🤖 From elephant biomechanics to soft robotics.

With Lucia Beccai’s Soft BioRobotics Perception Lab at IIT, our new paper presents ELEANOR: a large soft robotic arm inspired by elephant-trunk biomechanics.

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/aisy.7…

#SoftRobotics #BioinspiredRobotics

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Continuous and Large‐Scale: ELEANOR, the Soft Architected Arm Inspired by the Elephant Trunk A large-scale, architected continuum robot inspired by the macroscopic properties of the African elephant trunk achieves adaptive elephant-like movements and whole-body grasping. The results demons...