{"id":439313,"date":"2010-03-17T02:51:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/researchers-develop-fuel-cell-powered-robotic-fish-for-maritime-research\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T02:51:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T06:51:30","slug":"researchers-develop-fuel-cell-powered-robotic-fish-for-maritime-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439313","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop fuel-cell powered robotic fish for maritime research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/17\/robot-fish_1_PTK2D_69.jpg\" alt=\"robot fish_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Robotic fish for rescue work and maritime research powered by fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/index_e.html\">Osaka City University<\/a>\u2019s Faculty of Engineering have developed a one-of-its-kind robotic fish that is designed to be powered by a solid-polymer fuel cell dubbed the Power Tube. The 10cm long fish can not only swim but can also dive and rise, courtesy a joint at the front end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"341\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bVTpINHJeaY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bVTpINHJeaY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"341\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The researchers initially used a motor but later scrapped the idea when they found that the power consumption was 1W. Replacing the motor with a magnet system pushed down the power consumption to just 10mW enabling the robotic fish to swim for three consecutive days on a single charge.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/03\/16\/video-mini-fuel-cell-powering-a-robot-fish\/\">CruchGear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Robotic fish for rescue work and maritime research powered by fuel cells. Researchers at the Osaka City University\u2019s Faculty of Engineering have developed a one-of-its-kind robotic fish that is designed to be powered by a solid-polymer fuel cell dubbed the Power Tube. The 10cm long fish can not only swim but can also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}