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Shiny penguin, jellyfish, and manta ray robots swim gracefully through the water – and air
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
These machines are not carrying machineguns or flying covert missions over battlefields, but they are amazing to watch. Via [newscientist]
Posted in aquatic, biomimetic, entertainment, flying, video 
Tags: Festo, jellyfish, manta, penguin 
No Comments »Non-profit research organization CTC developing new military robots
Posted by Eric on June 14th, 2010
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Posted in AI, aquatic, autonomous, defense, featured, military / law enforcement, research Tags: Air Force, CTC, defense, military, navy No Comments »Sharks smell in stereo – feature may improve underwater robots
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
Neil Hammerschlag / www.neil4sharks.org A newly discovered trait in sharks explains part of why they are so adept at finding prey they cannot see. Aside from their sensors which detect tiny electronic impulses (such as those which occur if a buried crab moves a muscle), sharks use a “stereo smelling” technique to hone in on [...]
Navy robots stopped responding to commands, disappeared from radar
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
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Posted in aquatic, military / law enforcement Tags: awol, missing, navy, rogue, stray, uuv No Comments »Robots infiltrate schools of fish
Posted by Eric on May 31st, 2010
Researcher Maurizio Porfiri is developing robotic fish that move enough like the real thing that other fish not only accept it as a fish, but accept it as their leader. “His cyberfish is built out of ionic polymers, which act like artificial muscles when voltage is applied to them. This biomimetic approach allows the robot [...]
