Robots swim with the fishes

A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go.

For more information, read the full story at web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Kamal Youcef-Toumi
• MIT
• robofish
• robot
• fish
• research
• underwater

[salman06p0020]

Cool. I could see various applications where biologists can use it to study marine life and environment. The military can also use it as an underwater spy.

[aeddan1]

This was on CNN. It is for exploring where other things cant.

[digevoc]

The military implications are horrendously frightening.

[turreu]

Soon we'll be able to swim like that

[sphinxrising58]

Old shit, seen something much better on a documentary some years ago when US Navy was doing simliar research, fail.

[littlestworkshop]

Seems like a crank rocker in a rubber fish.

[Evi1M4chine]

Now the next step would be, to add fins.

[satychary]

Very nice work, huge improvements over previous attempts..

'Obvious' enhancements, which I'm sure have been thought of:

* exteriors tiled with solar cells on flexible substrates

* smaller, lighter fish with smaller power footprint

* miniature cameras placed where the 'eyes' are, that transmit via Bluetooth etc.

[greenzdemon]

Fail

[exenocap]

stop being so mysterious MIT