'Butterfly bot' wins top prize for swimming speed
"Butterfly bot," a soft robot that swims the butterfly stroke, gets its inspiration from the biomechanics of the manta ray.
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"Butterfly bot," a soft robot that swims the butterfly stroke, gets its inspiration from the biomechanics of the manta ray.
Researchers hava made a "butterfly bot": a soft robot that’s nearly four times faster than any other reported soft swimmer.
Two butterfly bots become the fastest swimming soft robots. The credit goes to their unique design which is inspired by hair clips and manta ray fish.
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Pennsylvania have developed soft robots that can navigate complex environments without human intervention or computer software. The paper titled “Twisting for Soft Intelligent Autonomous Robot in Unstructured Environm