News Articles with Category: Biomimetics
September 24, 2014 – via Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
Thanks to its web, the robot can now reach speeds of up to 180 millimeters (7 inches) a second — much faster thanthe 100 millimeters (4 inches) a second the web-less version of the octopus could reach.
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August 20, 2014 – via SHOAL
The bright yellow robots are undergoing their first in-vivo trials in the port of Gijon, Spain.
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July 31, 2014 – via Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection
The robot fish developed with an immense state budget of nearly $6 million to monitor water quality in the country’s major rivers have been found to be malfunctioning and not as technologically advanced as previously stated, Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection announced yesterday based on the results of its probe.
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July 28, 2014 – via Research Center for Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics
The octopus robot is more sophisticated than a standard robot covered in rubber. Its abundance of soft, elastic materials enables it to do things most other robots cannot — much as stiff-jointed humans cannot do what an octopus can, despite our soft skin and muscles.
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July 12, 2014 – via Army Research Laboratory
The inherent cuteness of robots is a problem for the military.
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July 3, 2014 – via Boston Engineering
The robot-fish is highly maneuverable and can accelerate quickly, reaching speeds up to 40 knots, Loper said. Being propelled by its tail instead of a shaft or propeller helps it remain stealthy and energy efficient. The shark-like sensor is engineered to carry a range of payloads from acoustic sensors to underwater cameras,
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June 27, 2014 – via Boston Engineering
Boston Engineering’s BIOSwimmer is a fish-like underwater robot that could be used by the U.S. military for inspecting ships, securing ports, and identifying contraband.
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June 12, 2014 – via Boston Engineering
The tuna robot boasts a propulsion system, a single oscillating foil, appropriately placed fins, and a muscular and sensory control system.
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May 19, 2014 – via ETH Zurich
An underwater robot that mimics the movements of cuttlefish and squid.
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May 5, 2014 – via FNA
These robots can be used for research purposes, including maritime environment, military purposes such as investigating under-water installments and military operations as well.
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April 17, 2014 – via University of Maryland
Bio-inspired robotic fish helps university researchers understand underwater motility
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April 4, 2014 – via University of Maryland
The idea is to create an autonomous underwater vehicle that can find stationary objects by changes in water flow.
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March 31, 2014 – via National Science Foundation
One of Bassbot’s critical advantages is the ability it gives the researchers to reproduce experiments. “Moving water is a complicated event and the model provides details on how this occurs and does so consistently
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March 24, 2014 – via MIT
The device, known as “RoboClam,” could be used to dig itself into the ground to bury anchors or destroy underwater mines
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March 13, 2014 – via MIT Technology Review
A new robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish.
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February 16, 2014 – via Northwestern University
The black ghost knifefish hunts at night in the murky rivers of the Amazon basin using closely integrated sensing and movement systems. It has the unique ability to sense with a self-generated weak electric field around its entire body (electrosense) and to swim in multiple directions. The fish moves both horizontally (forward and backward) as well as vertically using a ribbon-like fin on the underside of its body.
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December 26, 2013 – via European Union
Teams of robotic fish are drawing on the intelligence of swarms of social insects and other organisms in new ways to help protect the environment.
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November 26, 2013 – via Tallinn University of Technology Centre for Biorobotics
Fin propulsors of U-CAT can drive the robot in all directions without disturbing water and beating up silt from the bottom, which would decrease visibility inside the shipwreck
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November 16, 2013 – via University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Based on a penguin’s shoulder-and-wing system, the mechanism features a spherical joint that enables three degrees of freedom and a fixed center of rotation.
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November 8, 2013 – via University of Buffalo
Stingrays’ unique swimming motion is the basis of research by UB mechanical engineers.
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November 8, 2013 – via New Jersey Institute of Technology
The study suggests that the opposing forces simultaneously improved the ability of the animal to change its velocity, thereby making the animal more maneuverable.
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October 31, 2013 – via Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Recent studies from two research teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) demonstrate how underwater robots can be used to understand and influence the complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish.
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October 16, 2013 – via WHOI
This kind of low-energy, high efficiency thrust would not power any kind of fast-moving, quick-turning ocean craft, but it might be useful for monitoring devices that need to maintain a position or move at a slower pace.
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September 16, 2013 – via Boston Engineering
Known as the BIOSwimmer, the technology undergoing testing is a highly maneuverable, unmanned underwater vehicle that is equipped with a sophisticated suite of sensors and embodies the natural shape of a tuna.
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August 1, 2013 – via Polytechnic Institute of New York University
This latest study expands Porfiri and Macrì’s efforts to determine how bio-inspired robots can be employed as reliable stimuli to elicit reactions from live zebrafish.
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July 19, 2013 – via OCTOPUS Project
The European Commission-funded OCTOPUS project is building a robotic octopus body and brain that will be able to propel itself through water, elongate its arms, and use them to reach and grasp items. The research team is studying how all eight arms interact with each other and with the body to achieve locomotion and manipulation of objects.
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July 17, 2013 – via Filose
The EU-funded FILOSE project (Robotic fish locomotion and sensing) is addressing a key bottleneck for underwaterrobotics, namely the problem of understanding how fish sense the underwater environment.
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July 15, 2013 – via Gizmag
“Our goal is to teach students different skills in the areas of biology, mathematics, physics, and computer science,”
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July 4, 2013 – via Gizmag
For the past 2 years, researchers at the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) have been working on a giant robot crab that is about the size and weight of a Smart car.
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July 1, 2013 – via Phys.org
Octopus inspires new underwater jet propulsion system.
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June 26, 2013 – via National University of Singapore
Our model is capable of 3-D movements as it can dive and float, using its fins like a real fish.
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June 18, 2013 – via Octopus Project
Most of the time an octopus crawls to get around, but they swim quickly to avoid predation using a built-in water jet. Added propulsion comes from undulating all eight tentacles in unison, but the researchers have found that the robot can also move quite smoothly by fluttering its arms independently
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June 13, 2013 – via Bowling Green State University
For the past two years the team has been trying to figure out how specific sensory capabilities in fish can be transferred to state-of-the-art sensory technology that can be applied to creating superior sensors for military and civilian applications with AUVs.
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June 6, 2013 – via Polytechnic Institute of New York City
This is the first study to demonstrate use of robotic stimuli to study reward-related behavior in zebrafish, and is an example of how the emerging field of ethorobotics—the interaction of biologically inspired robots with live animals—can transform longstanding research models.
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April 1, 2013 – via Fox News
The goal is to create robots that are autonomous and self-powered to conduct surveillance.
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March 27, 2013 – via EPFL Biorobotics
It’s a robot that can walk like lizard, slither like a snake, and swim like a fish just by modulating the strength of the signal.
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January 25, 2013 – via Physics Central
Uncovering the secrets of fish shapes in relation to how they move could help engineers build better biomimetic underwater robots.
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January 16, 2013 – via NBC News
The gliding and swimming combo makes the robot adaptable to environments from shallow streams to deep lakes and rivers with rapid currents.
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January 14, 2013 – via Michigan State University
“Swimming requires constant flapping of the tail,” Tan said, “which means the battery is constantly being discharged and typically wouldn’t last more than a few hours.” The disadvantage to gliding, he said, is that it is slower and less maneuverable. “This is why we integrated both locomotion modes – gliding and swimming – in our robot,”
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November 29, 2012 – via Peking University
It swam in the Arctic Ocean for only more than 20 minutes, but the data and experience gained will prove valuable for further improvement of the bio-robotic fish and its production and application.
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November 26, 2012 – via ETH Zurich
The reasons to choose the turtle as model lie in the rigid body which is technically much simpler to realize than a agile body of a fish. The big torso also provides enough space for sensors and batteries which are essential for autonomy.
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November 20, 2012 – via Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Their findings show that zebrafish demonstrate increased attraction to robots that are able to modulate their tail motions in accordance with the live fishes’ behavior.
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October 23, 2012 – via Associated Press
The ONR grants aren’t aimed as much at creating drones as at understanding how things move forward underwater
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October 21, 2012 – via ASME
Drexel’s College of Engineering’s Lab for Biological Systems Analysis, which has a three-year grant from the Office of Naval Research. His team is studying the diverse functions of rayed fish fins, through behavioral observations, as well as robotic and mathematical models.
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October 20, 2012 – via University of Technology in Krakow
Malec says he hopes a future version of the robot fish will be more intelligent.
”We’re working on creating an autonomous underwater robot that will make its own decisions.
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October 2, 2012 – via GizMag
naro – tartaruga has been in development since 2010, but it is scheduled to make its first dive this month.
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September 29, 2012 – via NBC News
Their basic idea is to “devise a system … that would trigger the natural behavior of schooling, and that could make fish swim in a given way,” Rossi said. Such a system could be a fish-like robot, such as one under development by Maurizio Porfiri at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University to steer fish away from pollution and around dams.
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September 19, 2012 – via US Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology
Inspired by the real tuna, BIOSwimmer™ is a UUV designed for high maneuverability in harsh environments, with a flexible aft section and appropriately placed sets of pectoral and other fins. For those cluttered and hard-to-reach underwater places where inspection is necessary, the tuna-inspired frame is an optimal design.
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September 17, 2012 – via National Science Foundation
Search-and-rescue, planet exploration, home health care and drug delivery are potential applications that offer tremendous economic and societal impacts
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August 30, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts.
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August 28, 2012 – via IEEE Sectrum
Aerovioronment has used the sunfish as an inspiration for one of their latest proof of concept robots: Mola, an oceangoing robot that’s powered by the sun.
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August 22, 2012 – via Virginia Tech
The robot is essentially a silicone sheath over a shape memory-alloy core. It uses a gaseous fuel, a mix of oxygen and hydrogen which is consumed to provide the power to contract the nickel-titanium shape memory alloy used to provide the actuators inside the shell, and to provide the propulsion boost when the combusted materials are ejected.
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August 7, 2012 – via InnovationNewsDaily
The researchers saw air bubbles trapped between the beetles’ setae — bubbles that helped keep the adhesive-covered setae dry and sticky.
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August 3, 2012 – via Wall Street Journal Japan
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built what they say is the first humanoid robot that can swim underwater using all four limbs. The robot’s mission: to figure out the most efficient way to swim with the least amount of drag
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July 24, 2012 – via Futurity
“Biology has solved the problem of locomotion with these animals, so we have to understand the mechanisms if we are going to not only copy how the animal swims, but possibly even to improve upon it,”
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July 5, 2012 – via Ship Technology
Marine pollutant monitoring has gone robotic with the introduction of SHOAL, an autonomously controlled fish. Rowan Watt-Pringle spoke to Luke Speller – SHOAL project leader and senior research scientist at the BMT Group – about the use of these robotic fish to monitor and search for pollution in ports and other underwater environments.
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June 8, 2012 – via Institute of Physics
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots.
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June 7, 2012 – via NYU-Poly
Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) reports significant progress in devising methods for leading live fish away from oil spills and other aquatic dangers using a species-specific robotic fish
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May 31, 2012 – via The Engineer
Trials of the robotic fish are set to continue into June, and data collected during testing will be analysed thereafter.
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May 31, 2012 – via New York Daily News
Researchers at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute built a robot fish that will eventually be used in the Gowanus Canal.
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May 29, 2012 – via Virginia Tech
The main focus of the program is to understand the fundamentals of propulsion mechanisms utilized by nature,
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May 29, 2012 – via Great Lakes Echo
After three prototypes and multiple tweaks to his robotic fish, Xiaobo Tan is planning to deploy the water-monitoring device this August.
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May 22, 2012 – via BBC News
“Ports, harbours and estuaries can be challenging places to routinely monitor for pollutants, often with a lengthy time period between sampling and transport and laboratory time for analysis. “A remotely operated device could be deployed quickly and simply in shallow water environments, enabling a rapid response for decision making and remedial action to be taken.”
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May 22, 2012 – via NewScientist
It is not some bizarre new form of marine life, but an autonomous robotic fish designed to sense marine pollution, taking to the open waves for the first time.
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May 8, 2012 – via Scientific American
“It has now become apparent to most in the robotics community that the principles found in animal design and control can be applied to improve robot designs.”
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May 1, 2012 – via Seapower
The goal is to design and build an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that mimics the morphology and propulsion mechanism used by jellyfish to swim in complex ocean states.
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April 22, 2012 – via Forbes
Unlike rigid robots, soft robots can be used to squeeze into tight spaces.
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April 9, 2012 – via Salon
A scientist uses aquatic automatons to plumb the mysteries of evolution, intelligence and the future
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April 6, 2012 – via Charlotte Examiner
A number of new designs of small underwater drones are expected in the coming years. The Office of Naval Research has been sponsoring new breeds of vehicles
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April 4, 2012 – via GeekWire
A group of robotics experts gathered today at a “Biorobotics Roundtable” sponsored by Kirkland robotics maker Coroware to discuss how building robotic fish can help us better understand evolution, locomotion, even swarm behavior.
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April 4, 2012 – via GeekWire
A group of robotics experts gathered today at a “Biorobotics Roundtable” sponsored by Kirkland robotics maker Coroware to discuss how building robotic fish can help us better understand evolution, locomotion, even swarm behavior.
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March 29, 2012 – via LiveScience
Researchers are working on making a tiny robotic sea lamprey that would swim inside the body, to help with medical diagnoses.
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March 22, 2012 – via University of Texas Dallas
UT Dallas Team Collaborates on Undersea Vehicle Powered by Hydrogen and Oxygen
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March 21, 2012 – via Virginia Tech
American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen.
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March 16, 2012 – via Drexel University
A major focus of the Drexel team’s research concentrates on how the hierarchical sensory control of the fish influences its swimming capabilities.
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March 8, 2012 – via Drexel Now
A robotic fish, developed in Drexel University’s College of Engineering, could soon be leading the way for development of unmanned, automated marine vehicles according to researchers in the Laboratory for Biological Systems Analysis.
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February 22, 2012 – via Wired
A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking real fish into following it upstream. The feat could lead to better understanding of fish behavior and perhaps some means to divert them from environmental disaster scenes.
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February 9, 2012 – via LiveScience
Razor-sharp scales on their skin seem to make it easier for sharks to race through the water, by generating whirlpools that help pull them along, researchers say. This research eventually could lead to an artificial shark skin that enhances the swimming of underwater robots, the researchers add.
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January 31, 2012 – via Smithsonian
The research team led by Anna Greenwood of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle devised a machine to test for and measure schooling behavior in sticklebacks. This consists of a mobile-like cluster of fake fish which move together as a robotic school in a circle around a large aquarium. When fish from a schooling population of sticklebacks were placed in the water with this machine, they joined the fake fish and swam around with them.
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January 5, 2012 – via MIT
When in doubt, copy others. That simple rule is hardwired into humans.
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December 19, 2011 – via The Beacon
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Jianxun Wang.
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November 24, 2011 – via TPM
Gordon and a team of researchers at UCLA and Caltech spent the better part of 15 years studying the movement of boxfish in water, with a grant from the Office of Naval Research, which was interested in finding new models for its next generation of unmanned subs, also known as autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs.
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November 23, 2011 – via American Physical Society
The robot is built out of silicone and uses shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators to swim.
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November 23, 2011 – via Virginia Tech
Researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech built an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) inspired by jellyfish morphology and propulsion mechanism
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November 21, 2011 – via Fast Company
With a lot of help from Flipper, scientists have a better shot at understanding phenomena like black holes and supernovae.
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November 18, 2011 – via American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics
Recently, a team at Virginia Tech has improved the performance of this silicone swimmer, enabling it to better overcome the limitations of its artificial skin and better mimic the true motion of a jellyfish.
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November 15, 2011 – via The Age
A team of biologists from Australia and Sweden has studies schools of fish to better understand their movement.
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November 9, 2011 – via MIT
Lateral lines in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines
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November 9, 2011 – via Discovery News
New research shows how schools of fish swim together in unison — they drive like we do. By basing their speed and movements on the closest neighbor around them, fish are able to swim in large groups without accident
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November 3, 2011 – via Emory Univeristy
In their effort to design an efficient aquatic robot, the engineers at MSU have turned to actual fish for inspiration. Living fish are already well suited to aquatic environments, so it is hoped that their anatomy can be used in various underwater robots and vehicles.
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September 19, 2011 – via Scientific American
In landlocked East Lansing, Michigan, you’re unlikely to swim with dolphins. But you can swim with robotic fish, thanks to a team of scientists who are developing underwater robots that swim in schools to monitor water quality.
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September 6, 2011 – via Discovery.com
Roboticists are looking to sting rays, sea turtles, and sharks for inspiration.
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August 5, 2011 – via Harbin Engineering University
The competence of these “premium fish” lies in the high-tech and stable performance. Despite the small size, the little “fish” beares great wisdom. The gospel for the free swim was the “artificial muscles”, i.e. a bio-engine in the fish tail.
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August 3, 2011 – via University of New Orleans
Researchers will attempt to confirm an aquatic swimming motion theory originally completed by William Vorus, professor emeritus of the UNO School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
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August 2, 2011 – via University of Tennessee Knoxville
Knowing Giardia‘s inner workings may buoy an energy-efficient propulsion system for underwater vehicles or designs for quick turn and agile control of underwater vehicles. The findings of Giardia‘s unique attachment and landing procedures may also inspire a more accurate and quick surface attachment mechanism.
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July 19, 2011 – via Discovery News
Researchers have mimicked an unusual muscular structure found only in tongues and elephant trunks.
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July 12, 2011 – via BBC
The 78in (2m) robot is based on the nervous system of a microscopic worm, C. elegans, and copies its movements.
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July 7, 2011 – via The Economist
The result has been a flourishing of animal-like robots. It is not just dogs that engineers are copying now, but shrews complete with whiskers, swimming lampreys, grasping octopuses, climbing lizards and burrowing clams.
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July 5, 2011 – via IEEE Spectrum
This galloping technique has been adapted (and expanded) for robots by the Biomechatronics Lab at Chuo University in Japan.
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May 25, 2011 – via IEEE Spectrum
Designed to move by flipping itself end-over-end in a somersaulting motion. It’s called Aquapod, and it was created by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Distributed Robotics.
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May 17, 2011 – via Wilmington Star News
Dr. Crenshaw and Mr. Pell helped open the way for other biomechanics experts to turn their insights into technology. Some researchers are building self-burying anchors based on razor clams. Others are adding bumps along the edges of windmill blades to mimic whale fins.
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May 17, 2011 – via The Naked Scientists
Professor Huosheng Hu from the Computer Science Department at the University of Essex showing Meera and Dave his new generation of robotic fish.
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March 22, 2011 – via The Engineer
Possible uses for the autonomous, battery-powered device include underwater maintenance, marine salvage and retrieval of objects, such as black-box recorders from crashed aircraft.
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March 8, 2011 – via PhysOrg.com
Porfiri posited that if he could enforce leadership by an external member–in this case, a robot that actively engages the group–he could influence the direction and behavior of schooling fish.
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February 22, 2011 – via ars technica
What drives groups of individual animals to act in a coherent manner? Everyone has seen the oddly coordinated behavior exhibited by flocks of birds or schools of fish as they turn, sweep, and rotate seemingly as one. But how does a group of individuals make decisions about how to move and where to go at once? Do they follow some prescribed and describable mathematical behavior?
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February 10, 2011 – via New York University
An NYU-Poly professor has designed a robotic fish to help guide schools of fish away from dangerous areas like turbines and polluted waters.
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February 1, 2011 – via Defense Tech Briefs
Development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles have made great strides, but serious obstacles remain.
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January 18, 2011 – via Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Researchers at Northwestern University have created a robotic fish that can move from swimming forward and backward to swimming vertically almost instantaneously by using a sophisticated, ribbon-like fin.
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December 21, 2010 – via Wired.com
Borrowing biological designs from the black ghost knifefish, engineers have built a swimming robot that reveals how the animal’s trick of vertical movement works.
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November 2, 2010 – via New Scientist
Underwater robots that mimic fish are usually designed for efficient movement at constant speed. Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and colleagues at MIT instead aimed to build one to move off as fast as possible from a stationary start.
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October 28, 2010 – via Green Syyle Life
Soon, the water in Gijon, a harbor in Northern Spain will be monitored by robotic, battery-powered fish.
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October 25, 2010 – via Cornell University
The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this “gripping” mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell, the University of Chicago and iRobot Corp. have created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon, bypassing traditional designs based on the human hand and fingers.
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October 18, 2010 – via University of Maryland
Study is first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion in large, fast animals like fishes
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October 11, 2010 – via Michigan State University
Engineering assistant professor Xiaobo Tan and zoology assistant professor Elena Litchman are integrating their research and collaborating on a fast, inexpensive, and easy way to monitor the world’s waters and what lurks in their depths.
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October 8, 2010 – via Wired.com
Researchers led by a team at the University of Washington have received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Office of Naval Research, to evaluate other animal features that would make for better autonomous vehicles.
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October 7, 2010 – via National Science Foundation
Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they swim. Visually, they resemble what happens when someone blows smoke rings from a cigar. More importantly, however, this unusual method of propulsion, these so-called “vortex rings,” enable jellyfish to go further on less energy, an idea that scientists hope to translate into new engineering designs.
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September 21, 2010 – via Michigan State University
Dr. Xiaobo Tan has received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation, to develop robotic fish for detecting and monitoring the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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August 31, 2010 – via KBS World
The so-called robot fish, or underwater robots, are expected to be deployed in parts of four major rivers in Korea next year to monitor water quality.
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August 21, 2010 – via Providence Journal
The event isn’t a big draw for the public, but prototypes from the event eventually could be. “The reality is, what people are doing here now will have an application in about 10 years,” said Tom Roberts, conference co-chairman and associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University, co-sponsor with Rhode Island Hospital.
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August 13, 2010 – via Brown University
About 600 scientists from the American Society of Biomechanics will be in Providence Aug. 18–21, 2010, for a national conference. With equal representation of engineers and life scientists, the ASB will consider everything from free-ranging robotic fish and birds to prostheses and robotic “exoskeletons.”
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August 7, 2010 – via Science Magazine
We’ve proven it’s possible to use robotic fish to study relationships between individuals and shoal dynamics as well as the behaviour of individual fish
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July 28, 2010 – via Diginfonews
A tiny fuel cell powers a tiny robotic fish designed recently by Osaka City University engineers.
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July 23, 2010 – via Virginia Tech
Weird movements in the abdomens of freely crawling caterpillars are making headlines in the fields of engineering and biology, says Jake Socha, Virginia Tech assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.
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July 6, 2010 – via Korea IT Times
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy is seeking to develop fish-shaped robots with the ability to detect hazardous water pollutants.
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June 29, 2010 – via South Wales Argus
SHOALS of robotic fish could be coming to South Wales ports to fight pollution. The ‘fish’, nicknamed ‘RoboCod’ are designed as an early warning system seeking out pollution in ports, harbours and marinas. The ‘fish’ are able to mimic the movement of real fish and are equipped with tiny chemical sensors to locate the source of potentially hazardous pollutants in the water.
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June 28, 2010 – via University of Leeds
Leeds scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals will accept as one of their own. The innovation opens up new possibilities for studying fish behaviour and group dynamics. It provides useful information to support freshwater and marine environmental management, to predict fish migration routes and assess the likely impact of human intervention on fish populations.
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June 25, 2010 – via Balita
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said it plans to set aside 6 billion won (US$ 5.03 million) in the next three years to develop sensors, autonomous swimming control mechanisms and wireless power recharging technologies needed to operate the robots. The state-run Korea Institute of Industrial Technology will be in charge of the overall research with Samsung Thales Co. to build the robots, the ministry said. The robots will be able to run for four hours, move 2.5 meters per second and have at least five sensors, which can be used to check for water pollution, oxygen levels and submerged man-made structures.
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June 24, 2010 – via BMT Group
Visitors to the Science Museum in London will be given a rare opportunity to see the latest weapon in the fight against water pollution – a fully automated robotic fish which has been developed by EU scientists.
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June 20, 2010 – via National Geographic News
The prototype robot fish, modeled after carp, have been swimming around the London Aquarium as they await their release off northern Spain in 2011. Equipped with tiny chemical sensors, the fish will collect data on pollution in the port of Gijón and wirelessly transmit the information back to the port’s control center.
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June 10, 2008 – via New Scientist
Robotic fish with flapping fins and tails have been programmed to swim in a school by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle. They say that artificial fish with group behaviour could track marine pollutants or wildlife such as whales.
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