Robot Octopus Swims Faster than EVER

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SEP 25, 2014 09:00 AM ET // BY EVAN ACKERMAN, IEEE SPECTRUM
In addition to swimming free, the robo-octopus can crawl and carry objects.

Now the researchers report that the addition of a soft and supple silicone web has nearly doubled the speed of the roboctopus, and not satisfied with that, the scientists have also taught it to crawl, carry objects, and swim free in the Aegean Sea.


The most obvious difference is the speed: just over 100 millimeters per second with arms only, and up to 180 mm/s (or 0.5 body lengths per second) with the web.

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