This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Human technology has ...

When designing fish-like underwater robots, you want a means of propulsion which is both energy-efficient and reasonably speedy. A new tail-flapping system may fit the bill, paving the way for wider ...

They slip past beach cleanups and many treatment systems, then drift as persistent debris through rivers, lakes, and coastal ...

The winner of the inaugural Natural Robotics Contest not only swims through the water like a real fish — it also helps combat pollution in the process. Created by University of Surrey chemistry ...

(CNN) — Some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the nearest sea, engineering students at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich are hard at work on cutting-edge robots that may change the way the world’s oceans are ...

The collective intelligence found in nature is a wonder of efficiency and coordination. Birds flock to forage. Fish school as ...

You’re a fish in the ocean. It’s 2023 and humans have begun deploying swarms of sentinel robot fish along the reef where you live that will monitor your environment, track pollution and collect ...

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA; web.mit.edu) have developed a robotic fish incorporating whole frog-muscle explants that may be the first step toward building ...

Robotic fish developed by scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. are soon to evolve from engineering curio to actual tool when they go on a world-first mission off the coast of Spain. As ...

It’s a like a drone for the ocean. Homeland Security is testing a six-foot-long robotic fish that is designed to find contraband in a ship’s hull, The Rancher reports. Equipped with sophisticated ...

DARPA recognizes that insect-scale flying robots have immense military potential. I n laboratories around the world, ...