The 1-guilla robot is helping to explain how eels can swim so far without feeding Alexandros Anastasiadis, Annalisa Rossi, Laura Paez, et al.
Eels have been observed to swim for thousands of kilometres without feeding during their migration period, and experiments with an eel robot may help explain how they do it. They suggest eels can swim in a more energy-efficient manner by changing the way they undulate their bodies.
Alexandros Anastasiadis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and his colleagues built a waterproof…
