A water-swollen polymer gel which swings and undulates water backward was made by applying an electric field and making a reversible assembly-reaction of surfactant on the gel. Using this principle a fish-like soft-machine slowly moving forward by undulating the tail was made. The motion was analyzed and the mechanism was discussed.
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