Bacteria-inspired robot uses 12 spinning flagella to roam underwater

A underwater robot separates it in any direction with his 12 flexible arms, inspired by bacterial flagels. His creators can do underwater inspections without risking humans or wildlife, like the robots driven by the propeller.

Flagella are small, protrusions like hair, clockwise or counterclockwise clockwise. “(Bacteria) is called biological engine, it is something that rotates this extended structure, and this extended structure creates a boost, so that the bacteria is driven,” says Anup Teejo Mathew From Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, …