Fish tanks are pleasant to have around, but they're a decent amount of work, and no matter how much effort you put into it, those little fish are going to go belly up at some point. Fortunately, we ...
The race to save the world's delicate coral reefs is now in the hands of robotic jellyfish. The underwater drones were designed to monitor the delicate ecosystems. They were invented by engineers at ...
China has revealed a new biomimetic underwater drone with a transparent, jellyfish-like body designed for stealth ...
Have you ever lain awake at night thinking, “Wow, I would just sleep so much easier if I knew that, in addition to all the drones that already exist, someone was out there adding to the genre of ...
Although jellyfish may not be the fastest animals in the ocean, they do swim in an energy-efficient manner – a manner that underwater robots might do well to copy. With that in mind, Chinese ...
Watch out, jellyfish. JEROS, the jellyfish-destroying robot, is coming for you. Or possibly making more of you. Developed by a team of engineers in Korea, JEROS is a robot designed for destroying ...
Now, a team of Chinese researchers has unveiled a robot that pushes the field further into biologically inspired territory: a ...
It’s no James Bond. But then again, 007 probably couldn’t patrol the ocean depths, in disguise, for hours at a time. Meet Cyro, the robotic jellyfish. Designed by a team of researchers at Virginia ...
Last year, a team of researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering unveiled RoboJelly – a robotic jellyfish in development since 2009, that’s about the size of a man’s hand. While the ...
A man-sized robot jellyfish is patrolling U.S. coasts. A Virginia Tech College of Engineering team has announced their successful testing of this new jellyfish robot. Weighing in at 170 pounds, the ...
It doesn’t pay to underestimate a jellyfish. They may not look like the most athletic swimmers, but they’re remarkably efficient-- and their body plan could have advantages that translate to the air, ...
For years, I’ve sat in my room, wondering: When will someone get around to building me a remote-controlled, helium-filled, airborne, robotic jellyfish that floats that swims through the sky with ...