What is it with scientists and robotic animals? Did they not have pets as children? This year alone, we've seen robot ferrets, penguins, dogs, locusts, moles and bats. And now, scientists at MIT have ...

Following an inevitable progression of locally made, seafood-mimicking robots from RoboTuna to RoboLobster to RoboLamprey, MIT has debuted its “RoboClam.&rdquo ...

When you think of autonomous, unmanned spy vehicles, you probably imagine the telltale shape of a small aircraft overhead, and the suspicious sound of whirring propellers. Spy vehicles, however, ...

Borrowing from nature, a team of MIT researchers have built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast. The sleek robotic ...

Underwater structures that can change their shapes dynamically, the way fish do, push through water much more efficiently than conventional rigid hulls. But constructing deformable devices that can ...

For 20 years, scientists have been designing ever more realistic (and creepier) robotic fish. From that great tradition comes the RoboTuna, a miracle of “soft robotics.” Robotic tuna fish have been ...

You might not know that the bluefin tuna is an ultra-efficient swimmer. But the U.S. Navy knows that this tuna can reach speeds of 50 mph. So it wants to build robotic bluefin tunas for submarine ...

SENDING PEOPLE TO EXPLORE the undersea world has always been expensive and dangerous. But robots often have limited mission times and computing power since batteries occupy as much as 70 percent of ...

MIT engineers have developed a cheap, compact robotic fish that can go where no man (or underwater vehicle) has been able to go before. The pint-sized robofish, developed by Kamal Youcuf-Toumi and ...