{"id":207545,"date":"2025-03-01T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/palm-sized-robot-cuts-80-energy-use-by-riding-on-ocean-currents"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:15:12","slug":"palm-sized-robot-cuts-80-energy-use-by-riding-on-ocean-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/palm-sized-robot-cuts-80-energy-use-by-riding-on-ocean-currents","title":{"rendered":"Palm-sized robot cuts 80% energy use by riding on ocean currents"},"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\/EFku1tGQs4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are investigating fluid-robot interactions at these scales, motivated by fish that use vortices to save energy. Onboard sensing, computation, and actuation are essential for effective navigation. Despite their potential, data-driven algorithms frequently lack practical validation.<\/p>\n<p>Using inertial measurements to infer background flows is a new approach that was motivated by fish\u2019s vestibular systems\u2019 ability to sense acceleration. This method provides an affordable substitute for intricate flow sensors in self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Caltech team developed an underwater robot that uses these flows to reduce energy consumption by \u201csurfing\u201d vortices to reach its destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are investigating fluid-robot interactions at these scales, motivated by fish that use vortices to save energy. Onboard sensing, computation, and actuation are essential for effective navigation. Despite their potential, data-driven algorithms frequently lack practical validation. Using inertial measurements to infer background flows is a new approach that was motivated by fish\u2019s vestibular systems\u2019 ability [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207545","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}