Robotic Fish Gather Data, Prize
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Naomi Ehrich Leonard trains robotic fish to swim the oceans and glean information. The fish also helped her pick up a $500,000 'genius' prize from the MacArthur Foundation. Read the first in a series of Wired News profiles featuring MacArthur winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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Winning robot for iRobot Create contest does many things you wish the company already offered in a home robot.
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His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich uses an array of scientific instruments to probe the vibrant waters of the Pacific. He is searching for the absence of life.
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Pork-based artificial shark goes to sea The US Navy's plan to detect mines and other underwater objects by their electrical fields - in the same way as sharks and rays find prey - has moved closer to reality.â¦
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Researchers get a new tool to determine protein structures.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Photodiode made from peptide molecules sends current in directions determined by light color.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.
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Next time you slice up your favorite saltwater fish, consider donating its carcass to science. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission soon will begin collecting carcasses of several elusive species &#151; cobia, spadefish, sheepshead, red and black drum, tilefish and grouper &#151; from recreational fishermen to study the health of the fish populations.
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Department manager wants programmer pilot fish to support a system fish has never heard of. He soon learns it was created by a user that fish knows to be computer proficient -- but extremely dangerous.
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Technology from the heavens and virtual world are helping track the endangered whale shark.
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Researchers at the University of South Florida have been working on a biological sensor that would test waters off Florida for red tide, hoping to eventually track the harmful algae blooms.
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Blog: Can Florida's SubjuGator repeat as the winner in the 10th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition? It'll have to beat out a flotilla of other college teams.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Seals track prey with them, rats sense  nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using  whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid  obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surface on FCC Web site.