Pretty cool, but Quelab would need to get some serious grant money for it.

Subject: [New post] Swumanoid: a swimming humanoid robot
From: "Hack a Day" <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: Mon, 11 June, 2012 1:01 pm

Post : Swumanoid: a swimming humanoid robot
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/06/11/swumanoid-a-swimming-humanoid-robot/
Posted : June 11, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Author : Caleb Kraft
Categories : news

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If you just happen to find yourself at the Fifth International Symposium on Aero Aqua Bio-Mechanisms this August in Taipei, you might get a chance to see this half sized swimming humanoid. Swumanoid was created by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=32481) by doing a 3d scan of a human, then simplifying the shapes and breaking them up to 3d printable parts. Waterproof motors are needed... since it is a swimming bot. The articulation is pretty incredible, the Sumanoid can do the crawl, like you see in the video below as well as breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and even doggy paddle.

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