{"id":118884,"date":"2021-01-26T04:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/harvard-scientists-3d-print-swarm-of-bluebot-synchronized-soft-robotic-fish"},"modified":"2021-01-26T04:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:22:18","slug":"harvard-scientists-3d-print-swarm-of-bluebot-synchronized-soft-robotic-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/harvard-scientists-3d-print-swarm-of-bluebot-synchronized-soft-robotic-fish","title":{"rendered":"Harvard scientists 3D print swarm of \u2018Bluebot\u2019 synchronized soft robotic fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pflbeDRkUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University<\/a> have 3D printed a school of soft robotic fish that are capable of swimming in complex patterns without the aid of Wi-Fi or GPS.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the distinctive reef-dwelling surgeonfish, the team\u2019s \u2018Bluebots\u2019 feature four fins for precision navigation, and a system of LEDs and cameras that enable them to swarm without colliding. The self-sufficiency of the tiny bots could make them ideal for ecological monitoring applications, in areas that wouldn\u2019t otherwise be accessible to humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust by observing how far or close they are in a picture, they know how far or close the robot must be in the real world. That\u2019s the trick we play here,\u201d the study\u2019s lead author Florian Berlinger told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/these-adorable-fish-robots-form-schools-like-the-real-thing\/\">Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Harvard University have 3D printed a school of soft robotic fish that are capable of swimming in complex patterns without the aid of Wi-Fi or GPS. Inspired by the distinctive reef-dwelling surgeonfish, the team\u2019s \u2018Bluebots\u2019 feature four fins for precision navigation, and a system of LEDs and cameras that enable them to swarm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}