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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News – A team of researchers has beaten its o wn record for the fastest swimming soft robot,drawing inspiration from manta ra ys to improve their ability to control the robot’s movement in the water.“Two years ago, we demonstrated an aquatic soft robot that was able to reach ave rage speeds of 3.74body lengths per second,” says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an associateprofessor of mechanical and aerospace e ngineering at North Carolina State University. “We have improvedon that design. Our new soft robot is more energy efficient and reaches a speed of 6.8 body len gths persecond. In addition, the previous model could only swim on the surface of the water. Our new robot iscapable of swimming up and down throughout the wa ter column.”
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