Cyborg jellyfish have a swimming cap and electric propulsion system

A cyborg jellyfish outfitted with a swimming cap and an electric propulsion system can swim at 4 occasions its pure velocity, and could possibly be used for deep-sea exploration.

John Dabiri on the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues had beforehand proven that a stay jellyfish with neuron-stimulating electronics may swim almost 3 times quicker than a non-augmented jellyfish in a laboratory setting.

Now, Dabiri and his staff have given the creatures a additional improve within the type of a streamlined plastic cap…