Navy Considering Robot Jellyfish
For use in underwater surveillance
Meet Cyro, the latest robotic jellyfish to emerge from the engineering labs at Virginia Tech.
Cyro measures 5 feet, 7 inches across and weighs in at 170 pounds. Its design was based on the real-life species Cyanea capillata, one of the largest jellyfish in the world. (Cyro is an amalgam of "Cyanea" and "robot.") When submerged in a pool, the robot flaps its eight arms and swims gracefully.
"Our goal with this robot is to copy the natural jellyfish," Alex Villanueva, a grad student at Virginia Tech's college of engineering, explains in the video above.
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