Authors Yucheng Tang, Lei Qin, Xiaoning Li, Chee-Meng Chew, Jian Zhu have designed a lightweight aquatic soft robot that mimics the anatomy of frogs, including their muscles and webbed feet to increase thrust and swimming speed. They have employed two dielectric elastomer actuators, which have not been used a lot for swimming robots, as the power for their device. The dielectric elastomer actuators are part of a class of soft muscles that are used to drive the robot with low power and without adding a lot mass to the overall design.
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