MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) | The gelatinous worm, Tomopteris, dances through the deep sea @MBARIvideo | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
If you had to spend your entire life swimming through water, never touching the ground, you’d probably get pretty good at swimming!
This is what life is like for the gossamer worm, and why its abilities could be inspiring new marine robots. MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab is studying the unique paddling of these worms to help robots swim better. We partnered with the @MontereyBayAquarium on a new episode of @SciShow.
Be sure to check it out on SciShow's channel: youtu.be/tsvv9I2dACU
Learn more about this speedy swimmers: mbari.org/news/effective-and-elegant-new-research-reveals-swimming-mechanics-of-the-gossamer-worm
If you had to spend your entire life swimming through water, never touching the ground, you’d probably get pretty good at swimming!
This is what life is like for the gossamer worm, and why its abilities could be inspiring new marine robots. MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab is studying the unique paddling of these worms to help robots swim better. We partnered with the @MontereyBayAquarium on a new episode of @SciShow.
Be sure to check it out on SciShow's channel: youtu.be/tsvv9I2dACU
Learn more about this speedy swimmers: mbari.org/news/effective-and-elegant-new-research-reveals-swimming-mechanics-of-the-gossamer-worm
