New York University researchers have designed a flying machine that appears to use the same pulsating motions as a jellyfish. Leif Ristroph and colleague Stephen Childress wanted to create a small ...

Stuttgart – Most of the world is covered in oceans, which are unfortunately highly polluted. One of the strategies to combat the mounds of waste found in these very sensitive ecosystems – especially ...

Jellyfish and octopus have frequently served as an inspiration for soft robotics, especially when it comes to designing appendages that can delicately handle fragile objects. Now, the experts over at ...

RALEIGH – Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and Temple University have developed soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-life counterparts. More ...

video: Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and Temple University have developed soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-life counterparts. More practically ...

It doesn't float like a butterfly or sting like a bee, but it can hover like a jellyfish. A tiny flapping robot, developed by researchers at New York University, stays aloft by mimicking the pulsating ...

In a recent paper in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, researchers at Florida Atlantic University describe the process of building and testing five free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. The paper contains ...

July 2 (UPI) --Engineers have developed soft-bodied robots that can outswim their biological inspiration -- jellyfish. The jellyfish robots, described this week in the journal Advanced Materials ...

Deep sea scientists have a longstanding problem: studying a soft, spineless creature without damaging it beyond recognition. Now they have a new solution: origami-inspired robots with a soft touch. In ...

It doesn't float like a butterfly or sting like a bee, but it can hover like a jellyfish. A tiny flapping robot, developed by researchers at New York University, stays aloft by mimicking the pulsating ...

The jellyfish-bot is slightly more complicated, with the pre-stressed disk-like layer being stretched in four directions (think of it as being pulled east and west simultaneously, then being pulled ...