(MENAFN- Nam News Network) A REALISTIC ROBOT FISH COULD HELP SCIENTISTS SPY ON SECRETIVE SEA LIFE
A REALISTIC ROBOT FISH COULD HELP SCIENTISTS SPY ON SECRETIVE SEA LIFE. A robot fish dubbed SoFi, created by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to explore marine environments, swims at the Rainbow Reef off Taveuni, Fiji, on March 22, 2018. Scientists said they have created a remote-controlled robot that swims quietly through coral reefs and schools of fish and uses a fisheye lens of course to capture high-resolution photos and video with a camera built into its nose. Dubbed SoFi, it can swim forward, move up and down, turn and change speeds, propelling itself by wiggling its tail side to side like a real fish, a motion created by pumping water with a small motor into two balloon-like tail chambers. SoFi, built with a generic fish design, is white, weighs less than 4 pounds (1.6 kg) and is about 18 inches (47 cm) long. The untethered robot navigates for up to 40 minutes at depths reaching almost 60 feet (18 meters). Photo courtesy Agencies
Last Updated: 2018-03-23
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