{"id":649530,"date":"2013-03-29T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222945"},"modified":"2013-03-29T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:41:19","slug":"this-robot-jellyfish-will-one-day-patrol-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649530","title":{"rendered":"This Robot Jellyfish Will One Day Patrol Our Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have a fascination with taking animals, turning them into robots and making them far more terrifying. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/darpa\">DARPA<\/a> has been doing this for years, and Virginia Tech is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/virginia-tech-researchers-unveil-large-robotic-jellyfish-that-one-day-could-patrol-oceans2\">joining the movement: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds, as part of a U.S. Navy-funded project.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype robot, nicknamed Cyro, is a larger model of a robotic jellyfish the same team \u2013 headed by Shashank Priya of Blacksburg, Va., and professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech \u2013 unveiled in 2012. The earlier robot, dubbed RoboJelly, is roughly the size of a man\u2019s hand, and typical of jellyfish found along beaches.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/62880818?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/62880818\">Virginia Tech: Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/virginiatech\">virginiatech<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t particularly like jellyfish, but this robot looks harmless enough. I doubt it will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/darpa-trains-bigdog-to-throw-cinder-blocks-2013-03\">turn into a nightmare machine<\/a> like other animal-based robots. Still, the potential is there &#8211; the robotic uprising could see these robots being upgraded to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portuguese_man_o'_war\">man o&#8217; wars.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=WFDwdjpzD40:i3UcRNiN1Ew:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/WFDwdjpzD40\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have a fascination with taking animals, turning them into robots and making them far more terrifying. DARPA has been doing this for years, and Virginia Tech is joining the movement: Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649530","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\/7358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}