... and highly flexible wings. The cylindrical overlap-and-fling mechanism observed here may inspire the design of new soft robotic aquatic vehicles incorporating highly flexible propulsors to take advantage of this novel lift generation technique. The aerodynamics of flapping flight by insects, birds...

... and rough surfaces to simultaneously sense and grip may inspire new strategies in emerging technologies such as soft robots. where L is the resting tongue length and Δ L is the increase in tongue length ( Fig. 3 A). A stretch percentage of 100% means that the tongue does not change in length. Using...