Soft-yet-tough robots may one day explore the seas

Mongabay
Apr 7, 2017, 8:13 pm171 pts
Robot design continues to advance, and now robots have become soft. And quiet. And increasingly independent. Chinese researchers have created a flexible robotic fish that could someday independently survey aquatic vegetation, fish, and corals, as well as shipwrecks or caves too dangerous or expensive for humans…

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