It’s not a net, but a robot: A solar-powered, transparent cylinder a meter (3 feet) long that can roam the waters autonomously for five days at a stretch, counting fish. “Our project ...

Embedding fish hooks into plastic is done one at a time ... Repeat again and again! Your robot would need the aforementioned sensing and closed loop control and also the ‘normal’ array ...

“We can’t build a fish. But we can build a robot that moves like a fish and optimize it,” Cerdeira said in a statement. State-of-the-art unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) rely on screw propellers, ...

Three Lapwai Middle School students bring home high marks for underwater robot designed to track down non-native fish ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Meet SoFi, the little robotic fish that could help change the way we study the ocean. Created by researchers at MIT, SoFi is capable of swimming alongside real fish ...

Thankfully, MIT came up with an answer. Researchers at the institute have developed a soft-bodied robotic fish that can give scientists an up-close-and-personal glimpse at marine life without many ...

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as ...

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Bionic robotic fish, with their quiet, inconspicuous nature, can collect deep-sea data, monitor marine ecology, and assist with topographic mapping without interfering with aquatic ecosystems ...

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- At the National Innovation Center for Digital Fishery in Beijing, two robotic fish with a sleek, metallic finish swim gracefully in a breeding tank, showcasing ...

Israeli scientists have developed a solar-powered underwater robot called SOUND that can roam autonomously for five days at a stretch, counting fish and communicating its findings back to ...