SoFi isn’t like other fish, but they don’t seem to notice.

Pale and plump with a tail that swishes side-to-side, the one-eyed robotic fish was built by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

It is designed to swim naturally alongside other fish in open water and spy on them without raising suspicions or disturbing their natural habitat.

The un-tethered robot can use its camera to record behaviors of anything from sharks and whales to schools of tiny damselfish.

Source: CNN Technology News

Date: May 22nd, 2018

Link: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/21/technology/mit-fish-robot/index.html

Discussion

1) How might you put SoFi to other applications underwater?

2) This is an example of biomimicry, where scientists copy nature.  Do you know of any other examples of biomimicry?