This robot will feature a quartet of fins, and it moves in the same manner as that of cuttlefish when underwater. The swimming action of the cuttlefish is efficient and agile – which means the robot too, will be able to gain such qualities when it applies similar design cues. However, do not expect the cuttlefish robot to pick up the powers of disguise as that will most probably be so far down the “future features” list, if it is even there in the first place.
The cuttlefish robot is the brainchild of Pascal Buholzer and fellow students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. While underwater plants will in all probability, end up in the spinning blades of a normal robot, this robot managed to go through a forest of seagrass without any entanglement – thanks to its special design.