Robot red snapper

Caleb Kraft — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:55:00 +0000

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.

Hack a Day » snapper

Robot red snapper