Metropolitan Digital

Google


.

To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time

  • Written by Daniel Quinn, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real timeResearchers have been building robotic fish for years, but the performance has never approached the efficiency of real fish.Daniel Quinn, CC BY-NC

Underwater vehicles haven’t changed much since the submarines of World War II. They’re rigid, fairly boxy and use propellers to move. And whether they are large manned vessels or small...

Read more: To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time

More Articles ...

  1. Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
  2. A major new workplace safety initiative targets dangerous heat on the job, but what about chronic heat exposure?
  3. Britney Spears gets free of father's conservatorship – but many others remain shackled by the easily abused legal arrangement
  4. US Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion
  5. Havana syndrome fits the pattern of psychosomatic illness – but that doesn't mean the symptoms aren't real
  6. As heat waves intensify, tens of thousands of US classrooms will be too hot for students to learn in
  7. 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company
  8. Why charter schools are not as 'public' as they claim to be
  9. Who pays and who benefits from a massive expansion of solar power?
  10. What happened during the last government shutdown: 4 essential reads