News Report #1

"MIT Engineers Create New School of Robotic Fish"
08/31/2009
Shelby Lin Erdman
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/31/robotic.fish.mit/index.html?eref=rss_tech

Some engineers at MIT have been working to create a new generation of robot fish. The creators of this new generation of robot fish is Pablo Valdiva Alvarado and Kamel Youcef-Toumi. The fish is modeled after bass and is between 5 to 18 inches in length. The first robot fish was called Robotuna and was first show cased in 1994. Now 15 years after the first robot fish a new version is being released that is a lot cheaper and more efficient. The new fish cost just a few hundred dollars and the designers are hoping to release man of them to explore the ocean bottom. These robot fish can go to the depths of the ocean bottom where submarines can not. The designer of the new robot fish hopes that sometime in the future that he will be able to design a robot salamander too. Many companies are showing interest in the new robot fish and offering money to help fund it. The US Navy is now showing interest and will probably offer funding too.

This could be a very useful tool in the future. This robot fish could help us to understand how some animals survive in those deep depths of the ocean. It could help us to map the ocean floor and find species that we never knew existed. The fish could help to further the understanding of the sea and how life is sustained in it. The fish could also help us to find some underwater volcanoes that we may not have known existed. The robot fish could be used for many things and I believe is going to be be put to good use in the near future. It use fullness is yet to been seen but I'm sure once it is put to the test that is will be a great success and provide us with an amazing amount of new information.

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