Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to
create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.
Not exact matches
Liane Thompson CEO — Aquaai https://www.aquaai.com/ Aquaai
creates autonomous bio-inspired marine platforms (
robotic fish) for a myriad of use cases.
From there, Tan
created the Gliding - Robot - ACE, or GRACE, a
robotic fish that utilizes a flexible mechanized muscle to move through water and even sense hydrodynamics.
Because the robo -
fish that he and Youcef - Toumi have
created is made from a single piece of polymer, it is easier to make watertight than previous generations of
robotic fish.
Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33],
fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a
robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents
created by
robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming
robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate
fish behavior in a water tunnel.
In using
robotic fish we are building on a design
created by hundreds of millions of years» worth of evolution, which is incredibly energy efficient.