It can do just about everything a real dolphin can - dive, leap, roll and even hit speeds of up 20mph underwater. The robot dolphin even looks very like its natural namesake. But what is it for?

Delle is a prototype robotic dolphin created by Edge Innovations, a company with roots in Hollywood special effects. Photo by Edge Innovations. In San Jose, California, kindergarteners are sitting at ...

What could be cooler than swimming with a dolphin? Perhaps swimming with a dolphin’s cruelty-free animatronic doppelgänger? American engineering company Edge Innovations is hoping that for most water ...

It's called "porpoising"—the way dolphins swimming at high speeds leap out of the water because it avoids drag caused by swimming near the surface. Now scientists are learning to copy that trick. This ...

HAYWARD, Calif. (Reuters) - Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks.

It’s not hard to convince people to want to hang out with a robot dolphin instead of the real thing. By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine Published Oct 7, 2022 6:05 PM EDT This article was originally ...

Imagine, if you will, that David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau was put in charge of a technologically advanced theme park like the one on the TV series Westworld, offering visitors a plethora of ...

A life-size robot that looks, swims and reacts like a real dolphin: is this a glimpse of the future for marine parks? As zoos and aquariums in China grapple with new bans on the multibillion-dollar ...

HAYWARD, Calif. (Reuters) - Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks.