Controllable switching between planar and helical flagellar swimming of a soft robotic sperm.

Sperm cells undergo a wide variety of swimming patterns by a beating flagellum to maintain high speed regardless of the rheological and physical properties of the background fluid. In this work, we develop and control a soft robotic sperm that undergoes controllable switching between swimming modes...

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Main Authors: Islam S M Khalil, Ahmet Fatih Tabak, Mohamed Abou Seif, Anke Klingner, Metin Sitti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6214516?pdf=render