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Listen to koji Wish they would play here. Seahorse’s Armor Gives
Engineers Insight Into Robotics Designs The tail of a seahorse
can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage
occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego,
have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its
structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past
each other. Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure to
create a flexible robotic arm equipped with muscles made out of
polymer, which could be used in medical devices, underwater
exploration and unmanned bomb detection and detonation. UC San
Diego engineers, led by materials science professors Joanna
McKittrick and Marc Meyers, detailed their findings in the March
2013 issue of the journal Acta Biomaterialia.