Squid-inspired robot is a good swimmer

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Engineers are increasingly looking to nature when designing robots and other machines. Traditional mechanical approaches to designing swimming robots are usually inefficient. Using the pulse-jet mode that squid and jellyfish use to propel themselves, UK researchers developed a flexible robot that is as efficient at swimming as its biological models. The author team writes that further research could lead to robots that can move even more efficiently than aquatic animals.