Aquatic Microorganism Could Inspire Soft Robots Able to Move in Narrow and Hostile Environments (VIDEO)

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

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Writing this week in Nature Physics, a team of researchers from SISSA and OGS in Trieste, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, and Universistat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona show that metaboly allows Euglena to crawl remarkably fast in narrow spaces. This feature could be a source of inspiration for new engineering application in the cutting edge area of soft robotics.

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Giovanni Noselli

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