Movie S5.

Propulsion of a two-stroke directional swimmer. The programmed path includes a left turn followed by a right turn. The rotation is approximately 21.64° after the first stroke, and −21.45° after the second stroke.

Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

Tian Chen, Osama R. Bilal, Kristina Shea, and Chiara Daraio

PNAS. 2018. 115:5698-5702 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800386115