{"id":96918,"date":"2019-10-02T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/squid-inspired-robots-might-have-environmental-propulsion-applications"},"modified":"2019-10-02T02:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:24:35","slug":"squid-inspired-robots-might-have-environmental-propulsion-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/squid-inspired-robots-might-have-environmental-propulsion-applications","title":{"rendered":"Squid-inspired robots might have environmental, propulsion applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/squid-inspired-robots-might-have-environmental-propulsion-applications3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the unique and efficient swimming strategy of cephalopods, scientists developed an aquatic robot that mimics their form of propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-speed\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-speed<\/a>, squidlike robots are made of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/smart+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart materials<\/a>, which make them hard to detect\u2014an advantage that has potential military reconnaissance and scientific applications\u2014while maintaining a low environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists Xiaobo Bi and Qiang Zhu used <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/numerical+simulations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">numerical simulations<\/a> to illustrate the physical mechanisms and fluid mechanics of a squid\u2019s swimming method, which uses intermittent bursts through pulsed jet propulsion. By using this form of locomotion, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> can achieve impressive speeds, just like its animal inspiration. Bi and Zhu discuss their work in this week\u2019s Physics of Fluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the unique and efficient swimming strategy of cephalopods, scientists developed an aquatic robot that mimics their form of propulsion. These high-speed, squidlike robots are made of smart materials, which make them hard to detect\u2014an advantage that has potential military reconnaissance and scientific applications\u2014while maintaining a low environmental footprint. Physicists Xiaobo Bi and Qiang [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}