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Robot Spy Moves Stealthily Through Water
Researchers at MIT have developed a sneaky underwater robot intended to find ships with illegally imported goods. The robot, which resembles a two-tone football, was built using a 3D printer. It...
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Robots Discover Warm Storms Deep in the Ocean
Researchers prep the glider robot before its launch in January 2012. Photo courtesy of Alan Jamieson/Caltech. The dynamic systems causing sheets of ice in West Antarctica to melt are less mysterious,...
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Octopus-Inspired Robot Speeds Through Water
This 30cm-long, self-propelling robot moves faster than any other underwater vehicle, in part because of it’s outer elastic hull. (Photo courtesy of the University of Southampton.) Researchers at the...
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Higher Level Thinking Enabled for Underwater Robots
A Slocum glider navigates underwater using the Enterprise system. (Photo credit: Enterprise Research Team) Programming underwater robots can be a tedious task. Engineers have to break down missions...
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Dive of the RoboBee
The Harvard RoboBee, designed in Wood’s lab, is a microrobot, smaller than a paperclip, that flies and hovers like an insect, flapping its tiny, nearly invisible wings 120 times per second. (Photo...
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‘Squishy’ robot fingers aid deep sea exploration
Soft robotic gripper is attached (lower left) to the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) as it is lowered into the Red Sea for a test dive.(Photo credit: Kevin Galloway, Wyss Institute at Harvard...
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