The Deceptively Frail Seahorse Provides Inspiration For Robotic Armor Designs

Meera Dolasia
Sun, 19 May 2013 08:04:59 -0700

With their beautiful colors, upright swimming abilities and curled up tails, seahorses are magical creatures. Now it turns out, that these seemingly fragile fish are tough enough to weather impact that would destroy most living creatures - So much so, that researchers are planning to mimic their body structure to solve a problem that has been eluding them for many years.