Sunday, September 30, 2012

Soft robotics: Bionic jellyfish


    Viola Vogel is in the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, HCI F443, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Nature Materials
 
11,
 
841–842
 
(2012)
 
doi:10.1038/nmat3438
Published online
 

A polymeric tissue-engineered structure capable of swimming in a similar manner to a jellyfish is created by mimicking the structural design, stroke kinematics and fluid dynamics of the organism.
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