The growth in Aquaculture over the past decade has been phenominal, we’re eating more fish, stocks are depleting in some areas and catching the blighters is one of the world most dangerous jobs. Step up Ocean Technologies who’ve made underwater pens for a few years and are now entering into a joint effort with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to build ones that move autonomously.
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The latest development of swimming automatons comes in the shape, size and identical features of the humble Bream, has someone in the labs been overdoing it on the Saki.
Deep-sea swimming robots are nothing new, yet suffer a significant drawback in that they have to re-surface to communicate and share information. This problem kick-started the development of Robofish at the University of Washington over five years ago and progress, we hear, is going swimmingly.