Sentences with phrase «like robotic fish»

Many of these new tools look like robotic fish, but the University of Washington sent a robotic surf board to ride the waves collecting data from Antarctica to South America.

Not exact matches

Most robotic fish are like fish out of water: They're surprisingly poor swimmers, and they often scare away any other creatures they come in contact with.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

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.

We would like to acknowledge assistance from Paul Phamduy, Vladislav Kopman, Fausto Del Sette, Pankaj Rajput, Fabrizio Ladu, and Violet Mwaffo in fabricating the robotic fish and independent verification of the trajectory data.

The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr. A. L. Facci for the technical support on PIV measurements, Mr. M. Drago for the technical support on the design of the robotic fish prototype, Ms. L. Yang and Mr. K. Khan for their valuable help in performing the experiments, and Dr. S. Macri for the useful discussion and the assistance with the behavioral classification using the software Observer.

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This confusing world encompasses standard - issue toon realities (worlds of water and snow peopled by talking fish and bears) as well as more stylistically adventurous ones, such as a red desert which mixes ancient ziggurats with with the Mexican day of the dead, a forest grown within a malfunctioning robotic biosphere, and the vaguely steampunk - gothic homeland of Capy's kind, who fly airships shaped like top hats, furnished with plump armchairs.

While using shoals of robotic fish for pollution detection in harbours might appear like something straight out of science fiction, there are very practical reasons for choosing this form.

We've seen robotic fish that try to mimic the movement of fish, but nothing quite like this one.

With so many robotic fish projects in the works, it seems like we'll have quite a bit of biotech - diversity among «species» of robotic fish out in the ocean, all collecting climate change data.