A Mobile Robot and Bionic Fish Come into Being at Institute of Automation
The CAS Institute of Automation (CASIA) recently announced that it had developed an intelligent mobile robot and bionic robot fish that are characterized by multiple sensor organs and vision, voice recognition, and speaking capabilities.
The mobile robot, known as CASIA-I, measures 45 centimeters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height. It moves at a maximum speed of 80 centimeters per second. The machine can be used in hospitals, offices, libraries, museums, exhibition halls, as well as private homes.
The robotic fish features low noise, high efficiency, high maneuverability, and high concealability. Its successful development provides a necessary theoretical and technological basis for penetrating studies of the hydrodynamic performance of underwater bionic propulsion, for the construction of a highly efficient, speedy and highly maneuverable minitype of bionic robot fish platform, for conducting a series of research in key technologies such as the hydrodynamic model of coordinated robot fish group capable of swimming, and coordinated robot fish group movement & formation control, and for future development of minitype underwater androids and their coordinated group operations.
