By connecting a magnetic composite elastomer core to eight bendable lappets, researchers created an untethered jellyfish-inspired soft millirobot. The lappets contract and recover like a swimming jellyfish when exposed to an oscillating magnetic field along the robot’s body central robots can perform various tasks and could be used to better understand jellyfish locomotion.
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Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming
Ziyu Ren, Wenqi Hu, Xiaoguang Dong & Metin Sitti
Nature Communi