Swumanoid swimming android developed to improve performance in the pool
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Swumanoid's body is packed with instruments (Image: Tokyo Institute of Technology)
The form of the robot is based on digital scans of human swimmers (Image: Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Swumanoid is designed to reproduce a human swimmer's movements (Image: Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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With the swimming program of the London Olympics now completed and medals awarded, many will now be casting their attention to Rio in 2016 and how competitors can be helped to swim faster, how they can be made stronger, and what swimwear can be developed to improve their performance. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are hoping to answer these questions by developing a humanoid robot able to reproduce realistic swimming strokes.
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