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Roboticists have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath ...

Researchers at Cornell University on Monday showcased a pair of bio-inspired robotics running on a hydraulic fluid-powered battery. The redox flow battery (RFB) also mimics biological functions, as it ...

Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in Egypt's Red Sea. (Image by Alexander Vasenin, Wikipedia Commons, via Courthouse News) Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in Egypt's Red Sea. (Image by Alexander Vasenin ...

When it comes to developing robots that can move efficiently through water, scientists regularly turn to creature’s like squid and jellyfish for inspiration, and a UK research team has just produced ...

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In one research lab at Caltech, what once felt like distant imagination is becoming ...

Sep. 6—University of Colorado Boulder Professor Nicole Xu is developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish by integrating tiny microelectronic systems into the live animals. Xu has about 15 to 20 moon ...

A group of Virginia Tech researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, with a research grant from the U.S. Navy. The fish is made of silicone and shape-memory metal. The project cost the Navy $6 ...

In a recent breakthrough in biomimetic robotics, researchers in China have developed a jellyfish-inspired “underwater phantom” designed for stealth operations beneath the surface. Created by a team ...

A robot designed to look and swim like a jellyfish has gotten even more realistic, according to a researcher working on the motion component of the machine. The robot, known as Robojelly, was ...

Francesco Giorgio-Serchi works for the University of Edinburgh. He received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Some of the last areas of pristine and untouched wilderness on Earth ...