Peer pressure is bad enough with your living, breathing counterparts but throw in a robot and its game over. A recent experiment found that a robot fish was able to lead real fish into following it upstream. While this can…
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GhostBot robot mimics the movements of black ghost knifefish
The Black Ghost knifefish is an elongated freshwater fish that swims around by unudlating it’s long anal fin, much in the same way that some eels and brotulas do. Researchers from Northwestern University studying the motion of Black Ghost knifefish…
Robot Fish army will be used to detect pollution, then take over the seas
British robotics team has unveiled new fish robots which are very lifelike and the are designed to happily swim around and detect water pollution with their koi-style whiskers. Don’t let the bejeweled piscine machine fool you about it’s true intentions.…
Meet the Mantabot: A bio-mechanical engineered manta ray
Meet Mantabot, a bio-mechanical manta ray, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia that mimics the real thing. So move over robofish, you have company! Described as one of nature’s most smooth and graceful swimmers, the manta ray is an…
Scientist In Australia Discover New Coral And Spot A Rare Rhinopias In Comprehensive Deep-Sea Study
For the very first time, scientists have been able to view the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The team from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered five undescribed species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded…
LarvalBot Is Here To Spread It’s Coral ‘Seed’ Larval Restoration
To coincide with the Australian mass coral spawning event, Queensland University of Technology’s underwater robot RangerBot has been transformed into LarvalBot! This larvae dispursing robot will release hundreds of millions of developed coral larvae on degraded reef areas in hopes of…
Ten Underwater Video Drones You Can Buy For Ocean Exploration
Remotely Operated Underwater Drones The popularity of underwater drones has exploded within the past two years, and it seems every other month a new device pops up in our kickstarter feed or finds its way to our inbox. We will admit…
Aquatop adds LEDs to magnetic algae scrubber, can we innovate the algae scrubber any more?
Aquatop added LEDs to a magnetic algae scrubber and seeing the new product led us questioning can we innovate the magnetic algae scrubber any more? First off, lets take a quick pass at the Aquatop algae magnet with LEDs (we…
This company wants to build autonomous boats
Sea Machines Robotics is looking to take autonomous vehicles to the sea, retrofitting ships to be able to steer and navigate themselves. Like what car manufacturers and tech giants are trying to do on land, this company is doing to…
BlueWater Is The Newest Underwater Drone Coming Soon To Indiegogo
BlueWater is the latest concept drone in a long line of coming soon projects. But the question remains, when if ever will we see a consumer grade underwater drone available to the masses. We have no problem with seeing more and…
