Feather star-inspired underwater robot achieves 3D maneuverability with only two actuators

Researchers have built a soft aquatic robot inspired by marine invertebrates called feather stars. The robot can move through water in all three dimensions using only two actuators. The paper, "Minimal-Actuation Feather Star–Inspired Soft Swimmers for Multimodal 3D Maneuverability," is published in Science Advances.

• Robot is inspired by feather stars
• 3D maneuvering uses only two actuators
• Paper published in Science Advances