Tag: FISH

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a robot that mimics the movements of a knifefish, a creature that deftly swishes its lone fin in a ribbon-like motion to swim vertically. According to Fast Company, professor Malcolm MacIver noticed the curious way in which a knifefish he had in his aquarium tank would shoot upward. After studying the fish, MacIver and his colleagues discovered ...

From CubicleBot, the USB-powered desktop aquarium looks torturous for our piscean friends. Come mid-October, when it's officially released, grab the combo of a 1.5-quart tank, pen holder, overhead and interior lights, and an LCD screen that displays time and weather info. For the fish that end up housed in this pen holder-turned-fish bowl, we only hope that the axiom about their short memory span ...

Swimming, musical fish are about as tranquil as you can get. Quiet Ensemble, a studio founded by Fabio Di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli that explores the relationships between art, technology and music, recently took third place at the Celestprize contemporary art gathering in Berlin for the work 'Quintetto.' Composed of a series of five tall fish tanks, back-lit in a darkened space, Quintetto uses ...

For their new airship design, Swiss researchers looked underwater for inspiration. According to New Scientist, researchers at the EMPA, which is the Swiss federal laboratory for materials testing and research, developed a 26-foot-long Airfish that's filled with helium and mimics the movements of a rainbow trout to "swim" across the sky. Rather than engines, Christa Jordi and her team used ...

The Faculty of Engineering at Osaka City University have developed an impressive fish-like robot that can be powered by either a new fuel cell, dubbed the "Power Tube," or by a standard lithium-polymer battery. The unit on display at the FC Expo (a conference dedicated to hydrogen power and fuel cells) was powered by the standard lithium battery for safety reasons. The hope, though, is that, with ...

Engineers at Nissan Motor in Tokyo have developed robots that mimic the collision-avoiding behaviors of schools of fish, with the hope of one day incorporating the technology to make cars safer. The fat, adorable, quizzically Japanese-looking creatures roam in groups of seven and escape crashes by sharing information from laser range finders with one another via radio, allowing the group formation ...

It's good to hear that engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are starting to spend some time outside every once in a while. Pablo Alvarado, a mechanical engineer, and his colleagues at that prestigious university must have done so in developing their latest project: the robo-fish. Between five and eight inches long, the prototypes are comprised of a mere 10 movable parts ...

When researchers at a Washington State fish hatchery implanted one of their tiny steelhead fish with an electronic tag in 2005, they expected to find the little guy to the northwest in the frigid waters near Alaska, where many of the fish end up. The steelhead's tag, a tracking device similar to those used in household pets, was, much to the researchers' surprise, recently found in the stomach ...