I fall short of words, and find none to describe the skills of robots being developed every now and then. Having come a long way across the gadget capital Tokyo and Korean states where robots are bred the best. It’s time to embrace engineers from Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research IFAM in Bremen, who’ve developed an autonomous octopus-shaped underwater robot with sensors endowing a sense of touch.
Developed with an objective to aid marine life study, the robot intends to do away with the limitations divers and aquatic robots encounter because of their dependent systems that have high failure tendencies. The autonomous robot with sensors printed has the intelligent strain gauge which changes the electrical resistance of the robot as it encounters an obstacle underwater. The fitted sensors, thin as half the breadth of human hair, identify where the robot is touching an obstacle and the nanoparticles created an aerosol is guided by a software to the right location.
Via: ScienceDaily
