Jellyfish Inspired Air And Sea Robots
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
Festo, a robotics company who has previously designed robots based upon the mechanics of sea creatures, has released video of their newest creations. Based on jellyfish the AquaJelly and Air Jelly are sea and air based, respectively. They are extraordinarily graceful and almost perfectly mimic the movements of their living counterparts. The AquaJelly in particular is especially interesting. The idea is that these autonomous robots can communicate with each other and with aquatic charging stations using LEDs , allowing them to replenish their batteries and work in groups, making it much easier for them to wipe out our naval forces once they achieve self awareness.
Robot Jellyfish [YouTube] : Deep Sea News : Gizmodo : Thanks, Nark
Categories: #ectomo, Robots, Science, Warnings
Posted at 10:36 am on April 25, 2008
4 Comments -
Quite beautiful and graceful. I imagine a flock of Airjellies floating serenely thru the dank and dark canyons of Wall Street, randomly dipping down to gorge themselves on passing pedestrians.
Biomimetic robots are the wave of the future.
Comment by Bobdog — April 25, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
They are beautiful. But I don’t understand, where are the long trailing tentacles covered with microscopic poisoned harpoons? Hardly a perfect jelly fish mimic at all.
Pf course the other option would be to genetically engineer jellyfish with hydrogen sacks. I’m sure its feasable.
Comment by amplifier — April 26, 2008 @ 7:06 am
So when can I get one that I can drive around?
Comment by Kingfisher — April 27, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
This is really impressive. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Comment by Mogothe Mugger — April 28, 2008 @ 1:54 am