Increasing the Reliability and Versatility of Jellyfish Biohybrid Vehicles via Species Selection and Rhopalia Removal.

Simon R Anuszczyk, Noa Yoder, John H Costello, John O Dabiri, Brad J Gemmell, Kelsi M Rutledge, Sean P Colin

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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7 authors.

Simon R AnuszczykGraduate Aerospace Laboratories and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

Noa YoderGraduate Aerospace Laboratories and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

John H CostelloDepartment of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6967-3145

John O DabiriGraduate Aerospace Laboratories and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

Brad J GemmellDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9031-6591

Kelsi M RutledgeSensors and Sonar Division, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI 02841, USA.

Sean P ColinDepartment of Marine Biology and Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI 02809, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4463-5588

Funding

Office of Naval Research N00014-23-1-2754U.S. National Science Foundation NSF-OCE 2529198U.S. National Science Foundation NSF-OCE 2529199U.S. National Science Foundation NSF-OCE 2529200U.S. National Science Foundation NSF-OCE 2529201

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Jellyfish biohybrid robots have been demonstrated to be successfully programmed to perform vertical sampling profiles of the ocean water column. However, the jellyfish's endogenous swimming behavior can interfere with the controlled swim cycles, decreasing performance. Further, the model animal used to date,

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box jellyfishcyborg jellyfishmedusaocean samplingrobotic vehicleswimming kinematics

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PMID41439879

DOI10.3390/biomimetics10120810

PMCPMC12730998

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