Soft robotic replica of marine organism pleurocystitid

<p><img src='https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/DSC_0087 (1)_84.png' width='84' height='63' alt='Soft robotic replica of the marine organism pleurocystitid made with a combination of 3D-printed elements and polymers' border='0' align='left' /></p><p>Mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of a pleurocystitid, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem. The team used a ...</p><p>This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.</p>