Roboray Uses Bioengineering to Conquer the Deep

Bioroboticists at the University of Virginia have built themselves a robotic cow-nosed ray. Why? Because they can . Also, because rays are great at what they do, and if we can copy all their tricks to make better underwater robots, we absolutely should. It's no coincidence that all the coolest UAVs look just like rays . The form factor that was invented by batoidea eons ago is advantageous for a number of reasons common across fluids including both air and water, including high efficiency, good maneuverability, speediness, and lots of payload space. In other words, according to the UVA researchers, rays are "wonderful examples of optimal engineering by nature." UVA's bioengineers aren't the first roboticists to have noticed how awesome the ray is at being all ray-like. Festo, which knows a thing or two about robots inspired by nature, made both aerial and aquatic versions ...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robo...

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