Robot fish have come a long way from the novelty Big Mouth Billy Bass of the late 90s. Today, marine life researchers worldwide embed various types of more advanced robots into fish habitats (instead ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have ...

Robotic fish developed by scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. are soon to evolve from engineering curio to actual tool when they go on a world-first mission off the coast of Spain. As ...

In the future, robots will not only replace caregivers and make sushi, but they’ll also lend a hand offshore. According to Reuters, a team of European scientists at the University of Essex developed a ...

An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have created a robotic fish that doesn't just collect plastic pollution; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What was once an idea submitted by a student for a university contest is now a working — or rather, swimming — prototype that ...

China has unveiled a lifelike underwater robot designed to move through water like a real fish, offering a glimpse into the country’s expanding work on biomimetic robotics. Called the BG-5 Golden ...

Massive oil spills like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster earlier this year are fortunately rare. Unfortunately, smaller scale ocean pollution isn’t, and it causes enough damage to alter ecosystems ...

A new soft robot that moves like a fish represents a key breakthrough in the movements and safety of robots, according to the team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that designed the robot.

LONDON -- A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday. The 5-foot-long robots work ...