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‘Tunable tuna’ makes a better robotic swimmer

26 Aug 2021
Qiang Zhong holds the swimming robot above a water tank as Dan Quinn looks on
Efficient swimmer Qiang Zhong and Dan Quinn with their swimming robot in the test tank. (Courtesy: Yicong Fu, University of Virginia)
Giving fish-like robots adjustable tails makes them much more efficient swimmers, scientists in the

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