If the argument that art imitates life holds true, than MIT’s fish-like soft robot ― a robot powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels ― is art. Researchers from the prestigious university ...

The winner of the inaugural Natural Robotics Contest not only swims through the water like a real fish — it also helps combat pollution in the process. Created by University of Surrey chemistry ...

Researchers in China have developed a school of robot fish that ingest microplastics as they swim around. The team from Sichuan University in southwest China hope to use the robofish to clean up ...

Robo-fish has been developed by a team of scientists at Sichuan University in China. They will be employed to clean up the oceans and microplastics that are found in the water bodies. The tech ...

Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a set of fish-shaped underwater robots that can autonomously navigate and find each other, cooperating to ...

Scientists in China have developed a robotic fish that can remove microplastics from water. Made up of polyurethane, a synthetic resin, the bionic fish is just 13 millimetres in length. It can swim at ...

Could robotic fishes solve our problem with plastic pollution in the oceans? According to a group of Chinese researchers from Sichuan University in southwest China, robot fish that sucks up ...

The Research Centre in Robotics and Underwater Technologies (CIRTESU) at Universitat Jaume I has tested a new way of linking robots underwater. This week, at PortCastelló, researchers attached a ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Human technology has ...

Researchers found that the new method increased the energy storage capacity of the fish by 325 per cent compared to typical systems You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in ...

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