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Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics. In the first issue of that journal, out this month, MIT researchers report the first self-contained autonomous soft robot, a “fish” that can execute an escape maneuver, convulsing its body to change direction, in just 100 milliseconds, or as quickly as a real fish can.
“We’re excited about soft robots for a variety of reasons,” says Daniela Rus, a professor of computer science and engineering, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and one of the researchers who designed and built the fish. “As robots penetrate the physical world and start interacting with people more and more, it’s much easier to make robots safe if their bodies are so wonderfully soft that there’s no danger if they whack you.”
The robotic fish was built by Andrew Marchese, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and lead author on the new paper, where he’s joined by Rus and postdoc Cagdas D. Onal. Each side of the fish’s tail is bored through with a long, tightly undulating channel. Carbon dioxide released from a canister in the fish’s abdomen causes the channel to inflate, bending the tail in the opposite direction.
Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/soft-robotic-fish-moves-like-the-real-thing-0313.html
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
High-speed footage courtesy of Andrew Marchese
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Autonomous and soft robotics are there any upgrades
Movement and robotics that's old
Ooh feeding sharks?
To make meat?
Now make it so they run off fish food and the oxygen in water, give them AIs, breed the AIs that last longest, and keep going until you have real life robotic fish. I know that's what I'd do.
2:24 escape prey? doesn't she mean escape predators?
to create technology to scientist what do i have to study
I believe they mean that the robot can move and respond to stimuli on its own if its programming is tweaked. They probably just controlled it with the computer for the video.
This would be cool to use for clean-up jobs.
It might also be cool to be able to search for an energy source to keep it working.
Fishlike people talking about fish.
MIT is never disappointing! This soft-robot fish made our newscast.
Train Your Dog to Clean
Well done MIT
We are not far from I Robot and Terminator. LOL
But silicon is expensive to make. Please use silicon to make solar cells. Use vulcanized rubber this.
That's amazing. Am I the only one thinking sex toys?
http://payojob.com/?id=41827
send robotic fish to discover the deep ocean,
2:20 "Biological fish use the escape manoeuvre…to escape PREY…"