Bionic Jellyfish Can Swim Three Times Faster Using Less Energy After Being Fitted With Tiny Prosthetic
A long-running project managed by scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Stanford University have shown a prosthetic can make jellyfish move about three times faster using less energy, and without causing any harm. Their findings are published in Science Advances. Academics said jellyfish equipped with sensors could soon be directed to explore and record data about the ocean—aided in part by their abundance. “Only a small fraction of the ocean has been explored, so we want to take advantage of the fact that jellyfish are everywhere already to make a leap from ship-based measurements, which are limited in number due to their high cost,” John Dabiri, one of the lead researchers, said in a statement....