Caltech and Harvard Bioengineers Explain Artificial Jellyfish Research

Learning from the Jellyfish: Squishy pumps for biomedical and engineering applications Most people know jellyfish as a painful nuisance, a beautiful aquarium exhibit or--less commonly--in the form of a marinated snack. Now a team of researchers at Caltech and Harvard University have taken yet another perspective on this simple invertebrate; for them, it constitutes nature's prototype of a flexible, muscle-powered pump that could be used for medicalapplications and soft robotics. Graduate student Janna Nawr