Wednesday 21 March 2018
Researchers at MIT today revealed their fishiest project yet: a swimming robot. SoFi is an autonomous underwater vehicle that looks like a fish, swims like a fish, and even has a fisheye lens for its built-in camera. It’s here to uncover the ocean’s mysteries by pretending to be just another Nemo or Dory in the sea. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT designed the robot to look and move like a real fish, complete with an undulating tail to provide propulsion and a unique buoyancy method which allows the vehicle to ascend and descend. SoFi was…
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