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April 30, 2008

Flying Jellyfish!

Back in 2007 we reported on the swimming blimp. Now a German outfit called Festo (I don't speak German, so I'm unclear if it's a company, an artists' collective, an educational organization, or a one-name supervillain planning to conquer the world) has created a flying robotic jellyfish. Video of it is here.

A tip of the jellyfish-shaped hat to David Szondy's Ephemeral Isle.

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According to their website, Festo is a company specializing in automation (for factories etc.)

That jellyfish is wonderful though! Nice that a company is willing to go out on a limb with a project that's more interesting than immediately useful. The description of it (which I could translate if you want) seems to think that the innovative thing about it is the propulsion system: they call it "peristaltic" action of the balloon. This doesn't need much power to drive it.

WOW! Did you know that there was a shighting of real flying Jellyfish? I saw it at CryptidsAreReal.com

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