Dylan Wainwright

A bio-robotic remora disc with attachment and detachment capabilities for reversible underwater hitchhiking

Remoras employ their adhesive discs to rapidly attach to and detach from a wide range of marine surfaces. By analyzing high-speed images of remoras' (Echeneis naucrates) hitchhiking behavior, we describe the fish's detachment mechanism as a lip curling up to break the seal between the disc and subst…