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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Wed Mar 21, 2018, 06:36 PM Mar 2018

It looks like a fish, but its not. Meet the robot built to spy on ocean life

Deborah Newborn

SoFi, a remotely controlled robotic fish, explores the Somosomo Strait in Taveuni, Fiji.

It looks like a fish. It swims like a fish. But it isn't a fish.

It's SoFi, the robotic fish!

Developed by researchers at MIT, SoFi is a soft-bodied robot that glides silently through the water with a smooth, undulating motion designed to mimic the movements of real fish.

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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-robotic-fish-pacific-20180321-story.html

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It looks like a fish, but its not. Meet the robot built to spy on ocean life (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2018 OP

Very cool! Bayard Mar 2018 #1

Just wait until it comes upon a Humboldt Squid. longship Mar 2018 #2

Bayard

(30,276 posts)

1. Very cool!

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Wed Mar 21, 2018, 07:16 PM

Mar 2018

If used for environmental and fisheries research.

longship

(40,416 posts)

2. Just wait until it comes upon a Humboldt Squid.

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Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:08 PM

Mar 2018

Now that would be entertaining. It would be a very short battle.

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