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Research on the interplay of biomechanics and the nervous system: neuromechanics, neuroethology, robotics, and simulation, using weakly electric fish as a model system
                        Frame of an animation of black ghost knifefish swimming. The movement arises out of the prescribed undulation in combination with a numerical fluids algorithm.
Frame of physics-based animation of weakly electric fish swimming


external link indicator News story on going to Hollywood to participate in the Science Entertainment Exchange

external link indicator Article in the New Scientist on our robot that senses objects underwater with electric fields

Video on how electric fish swim small version (40 MB, mov); large version (80 MB, mov).

Other media sightings