{"id":229076,"date":"2026-01-15T01:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/underwater-robots-inspired-by-nature-are-making-progress-but-hurdles-remain"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:26:03","slug":"underwater-robots-inspired-by-nature-are-making-progress-but-hurdles-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/underwater-robots-inspired-by-nature-are-making-progress-but-hurdles-remain","title":{"rendered":"Underwater robots inspired by nature are making progress, but hurdles remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/underwater-robots-inspired-by-nature-are-making-progress-but-hurdles-remain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Underwater robots face many challenges before they can truly master the deep, such as stability in choppy currents. A new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44182-025-00064-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>npj Robotics<\/i> provides a comprehensive update of where the technology stands today, including significant progress inspired by the movement of rays.<\/p>\n<p>Underwater robots are not a gimmick. We need them to help us explore the roughly 74% of the ocean floor that still remains a mystery. While satellites, buoys and imaging technology can map the surface and the upper reaches of the ocean, we need underwater drones to explore and gather data from the hidden depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwater robots face many challenges before they can truly master the deep, such as stability in choppy currents. A new paper published in the journal npj Robotics provides a comprehensive update of where the technology stands today, including significant progress inspired by the movement of rays. Underwater robots are not a gimmick. We need them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229076","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}