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Mimicking Critter Movement
The Scientist 2004, 18(1):12
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It creeps like a worm, crawls like a snail, slithers like a snake and inches along like an inchworm. But the critter Lakshmi-narayanan Mahadevan and colleagues have designed is merely a filament of cylindrical hydrogel with a 2 mm radius measuring 2 cm long.[1]
By vibrating the glass plate on which the artificial animal rests and subjecting it to different oscillation patterns, the researchers induced the gel to execute different gaits.
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