A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid robot that can propel itself through the water untethered, just like the real thing.
“Essentially, we recreated all the key features that squids use for high-speed swimming,” Michael T. Tolley, co-author of the paper published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics last month.
“This is the first untethered robot that can generate jet pulses for rapid locomotion like the squid and can achieve these jet pulses by changing its body shape, which improves swimming efficiency,” he added.
It moves by sucking in and expelling water behind it — just like the real thing.
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