It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A . . . Jellyfish?

Saturday, November 30, 2013 - 07:50 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers have built a small vehicle whose flying motion resembles the movements of those boneless, pulsating, water-dwelling creatures we call jellyfish.  Their presentation at the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Pittsburgh,demonstrates a new method of flight that could transport miniaturized future robots for surveillance, search-and-rescue, and monitoring of the atmosphere and traffic.  read more

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