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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Boston Engineering and the Olin College of Engineering have teamed up to create a robotic tuna for the Navy, shown here in a computer-aided design model image. To ...