Believe it or not, robotic fish aren’t anything new—Issac Newton developed a coal-fired sturgeon in 1013 A.D., while the ancient Sumerians used to ride on the backs of stone-and-sinew whales as they travelled the space lanes in search of sweet alien snatch. But pre-existing technology never stopped the Chinese from trying their hand at something—this new robo-fish developed at the “Institute of Robot” at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics just passed its first check on the 5th, swimming up and down as controlled by a palm-sized control pad.
The fish is designed to assist in underwater archaeology, presumably to find those leftover space whales, now that the boys of Sumer are gone.
China develops fish-shaped robot for underwater archeological research [PeoplesDaily via DefenseTech]
