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Another International Competition I Wasn't Aware Of...

Robotic fish?

The pic above is from October of last year, when the University of Essex developed a self-guiding robot fish, and three of them were added to the London Aquarium More shots and even some video are to be found in the Essex Robotics gallery.

More recently, a far more artificial-looking, but nonetheless sophisticated robotic fish from Ryomei Engineering in Japan can be found here. (There's a video clip over there, too.)

Comments

Jodi said…
neat fish!
we saw a robot car at the smithsonian. it looked like a landrover. the kids were VERY impressed.
j.
6:55 PM
Mike Norton said…
Someday I'll make it back down to the Smithsonians again, though from what I heard the other day I might be asked to pay an admission by then. Well, maybe when a proper administration is in place some of these trends can be reversed.
8:32 PM
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