Researchers have created a "soft" robofish powered by carbon dioxide that can swim around on its own and execute a critical escape maneuver just as fast as a real fish. Freelancer Michael Franco ...

MIT researchers have created a soft, autonomous robotic fish that can change direction in a fraction of a second — nearly as fast as a real fish can. The softness of the robot enables the machine to ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This is a soft-bodied, inflatable robotic fish developed at MIT that ...

It’s often said that we know less about the ocean depths than we do about the surface of the moon. That fact was highlighted again this week when Smithsonian explorers published a paper about a new ...

There’s still quite a lot that we don’t understand about the oceans here on Earth. Part of that is obviously due to the absolute crushing depths that the waterways can descend to, though our ...

Soft robotics is a field that’s growing so fast MIT has created an entire journal dedicated to the field, and the first edition profiles a robot fish that can perform a getaway maneuver with its ...

Robots disguised as animals have come to provide us with unprecedented insights into the natural world, as BBC's incredible wildlife documentaries continue to demonstrate. Now scientists at MIT's ...

MIT CSAIL just revealed footage of SoFi, the lab’s robotic fish, which looks right at home swimming amongst the coral reefs of Fiji. The project is an attempt to create an autonomous underwater ...

Anyone who has ever tried to grab a minnow out of the water knows that it's almost impossible. Not only can they swim forward very quickly, but they can also make near-instantaneous right-angle turns, ...

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own ...

Think of a robot. Chances are you imagined one with legs like C-3PO of “Star Wars” fame or something with wheels like NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Neither of these rigid body types are particularly ...

*Give a man a fish robot and he'll wonder what it's for, but teach a man to create fish robots and he'll start his own journal of "soft robotics." We 3D-Printed Luigi Mangione’s Ghost Gun. It Was ...