MIT's Finnegan the RoboTurtle

[skeevy17]

this robot is impressively fast and graceful; water buoyancy must be a nice thing to work with, in it's own way! Would love to see it with remote instead of umbilical power, someday. Beautiful piece of technology, engineers. Fantastic work.

[UlyssesBreckenridge]

If a turtle had the option of riding a jet ski I think it would.

[khi021]

interesting but I don't see any other application for this particular technology except to experiment with it.

side note, imagine building a torpedo out of this technology. very slow moving weapon but then again very quite.

[adrastea99]

You sounded very smart, up until the last word, when your idiocy leaked through a little

[khi021]

So you caught a typo...wow! Congratulation!... give yourself a commonwealth writers' prize!

[adrastea99]

Lawlz, I just made you spend extra time writing that comment, furiously checking if you made a mistake. Where I come from, that's called checkmate

:D

Either that of FF3

[JEGGreene]

You have got to have something better to do with you're time

[adrastea99]

Heh, nice

[JEGGreene]

No, I don't mean the turtle bot i mean you adrastea99, correcting peoples typos on the internet, it's petty people like you who make me laugh

[adrastea99]

Oh I know

You misspelled 'your' on purpose to try to goad me. Thats what I was laughing at

[JEGGreene]

haha whats makes it even more amusing is i didnt haha that was my computers auto dictionary haha you are a plick

[adrastea99]

Haha what makes it even more amusing is you rely on spellcheckers haha haha you are a PRICK

[javizfk]

gzzz whats with these ppl!?!.... i really think it moves rather smooth and pretty damn well for a human desingd turtle... damn... those narrow u turns and the way it sudenly starts to move i guess wasnt an easy thing to program or figure out... have some respect... of course unless u have done something better... gzzz!!!

[reidsteam]

I love automations. This one, though, is clunky and dull. And being wired, it's looking like it's just a remote control swimming machine--nothing there to convince the viewers that it's autonomous in the least.

That's how it looks.

[javizfk]

autonomous... who said a word about autonomous turtle?... even if it has some sort of control at the other end of the wire, can u even start to imagine all the work it needs to be done for it to keep the balance?... and thats without counting that those arent legs, those a more like 3 axel padds now coordinate all 4 of em... just to keep it balanced... got it? now make it go foward... or just upwards... omg... im sry i dunno why i got so irritated!

[HartfordTommy]

ha ha, yes, it's impressive. I could not make any such swimming pod myself. MOST AMAZING(jk),

the aqua lung sounds, just like real sea turtles (not).

Yes, hear the bubbles exhaled, but the bubbles are invisible. Maybe that tether is an air line, ha ha. gah.

[RocketBurn11]

This was actually a helpful expiriment. It showed that with current technology a robot turtle is completely inifficient mode of locomotion.

[MustelaFuro]

It moves a lot more like a robotic manatee... with down syndrome

[camshapht]

The music kills me

[PetrFM]

Scientists in robotics try to mimic biologic lifeforms, sometimes this brings interesting solutions, but this turtle is not the case. I think mother nature would use propeller if she has technology for joints capable of full circle rotation.

[PoliomanGamer]

turtles dont have propellers

[RakionRocks96]

Go and read the science book again!!

[PoliomanGamer]

well I meant like submarine propellers

[cheky25]

sarpadoo

el mit ayaa!

jajajaja

argentina

tiene a la pf :D

[N3SB0Y]

wow now they can send fake turtles to spy on the world lol

[russetwolf13]

So exactly how many swimming robots have you made?

[dknc75]

Very cool and very life-like movements. But couldn't they make it look cuter and claim that it's the first one in history? Then it would be made in Japan.

[ritonio]

apasionante