Students study squirmy medicine: Will robot worms heal what ails you?
Working in the laboratory of Arshad Kudrolli, professor and chair of the Physics Department, the Ph.D. candidate conducts experiments detailing how California blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus) move through water-filled spaces of various shapes and strictures. Student researcher Simon Bissitt '26 describes the worms he and Kapadia observe wriggling inside various containers as "inspiration models" for those future robots.
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