Scientists studied fluid mechanics to simulate and build a squidlike robot that’s fast, quiet and hard to see. Inspired by the unique and efficient swimming strategy of cephalopods, sc... Read more
An innovative, eel-like robot developed by engineers and marine biologists at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. Instead, the robot uses... Read more
Football-size robot can skim discreetly along a ship’s hull to seek hollow compartments concealing contraband Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MI... Read more
There’s clearly a market for long-duration ocean going robots A mola, or ocean sunfish, is a very big, very flat, and (in this reporter’s opinion) rather silly looking tropical b... Read more
First successful powering of an underwater robot using external hydrogen Researchers have created a silicone submarinal robot that gets about by mimicking the motion of a jellyfish. The robo... Read more
Researchers from the national project RAUVI [Reconfigurable autonomous underwater vehicle for intervention], which is coordinated by Pedro Sanz, a lecturer of Computer Science and Artificial... Read more
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from Oct. 17 through Nov. 12, 2010. Scientists predict that the... Read more