After observing the animal further, Qing realized its elegant flapping motions and swimming patterns “aligns perfectly with the goals of soft robotics.” The robot’s Manta ray-like design ...

Manta rays are elegantly shaped. They swim by flapping their fins like enormous wings, and their gills filter for plankton ...

It was just two years ago that a tiny robotic manta ray became the world's fastest-swimming soft-bodied robot. Well, one of its descendants has now smashed that record – and it uses less energy ...

Haitao Qing, Study First Author, and Ph.D. Student, North Carolina State University Controlling the soft robot's vertical movement also required a thorough understanding of manta ray fluid dynamics.

What influence can marine life have on robotics? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Virginia and North Carolina ...

The record-breaking robot has fins shaped like those of a manta ray and is made of a material that is stable when the fins are spread wide. Study corresponding author Professor Jie Yin ...

Our new robot is capable of swimming up and down throughout the water column.” The soft robot has fins shaped like those of a manta ray, and is made of a material that is stable when the fins are ...

The record-breaking robot has fins shaped like a manta ray, and is made of a material that is stable when the fins are spread wide. Study corresponding author Dr. Jie Yin, of North Carolina State ...

Researchers have set a new record for the fastest swimming soft robot, inspired by manta rays ... mimicking the downward stroke of a manta ray’s fin flap. When the air is released, the fins ...