‘Butterfly bot’ swims 4X faster than past robots
“Butterfly bot,” a soft robot that swims the butterfly stroke, gets its inspiration from the biomechanics of the manta ray.
‘Rotini’ robot moves through mazes on its own
Soft ribbon robots that look like translucent rotini use heat to get around mazes without any help from humans or computer software.
Cilia’s push turns sperm into super swimmers
Carpets of tiny hairs called cilia that line the inside of the fallopian tubes give sperm the extra boost they need to be super swimmers, a new study shows.