Manta ray inspires underwater robot
By Reuters
07 December 2017 |
7:40 am
Singapore-based researchers have built an underwater robot that looks and swims like a manta ray, using only single motors and flexible fins to propel it through water in a way uncannily like its biological cousin.
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