Robot red snapper
posted Jul 30th 2008 4:55pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: news
Engineers at the University of Kitakyushu have built this red snapper robot. Intended for wildlife surveys, this robot sports an array of sensors as well as a hand painted silicon body. It is decidedly more realistic looking than the Robofish and the Essex University robot fish. They say that the life like construction will aid in getting information about natural behavior of sea animals since it won’t stand out. It features a “unique” propulsion system that allows it to swim like a real fish. More information on that system would be nice. You can see more pictures of it here, but the descriptions are all in Japanese.
The team is also developing a manta ray. We’ll have to be patient though, they haven’t released any media on that one.
Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty.
Posted at 5:23 pm on Jul 30th, 2008 by Christopher Finke