Reconfigurable aquabots (IMAGE)
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Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable underwater robots using simple repeating substructures. The team has demonstrated the new system in two different example configurations, one like an eel, pictured here in the MIT tow tank.
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Image courtesy of Alfonso Parra Rubio, Michael Triantafyllou and Neil Gershenfeld, et al
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