The autonomous bot fits right into the naval environment collecting data without disturbing its surroundings.
"Those areas are particularly vulnerable to propeller-based systems that would just sort of shred through the corals or go and scare the fish away,” Robert Katzschmann, Assistant Professor of Robotics at ETH Zurich, said.The robot is equipped with artificial intelligence which allows it to self-navigate underwater seamlessly. But that’s not all! It can also collect DNA samples and high resolution video.
The robot measures under a meter and weighs almost 10 kg out of the water, making it light enough to travel with ease. Belle is powered by a silicone fin with two cavities into which water is pumped in cycles making for a quiet movement that blends into the coral environments present in the deep seas.
“These cavities are filled and emptied with water through a pump system, and that moves the fin back and forth, because you have a cavity on one side which creates an overpressure and a cavity on the other side which creates a vacuum. That then bends the fin in one direction," Guggenheim said.“It swims to the surface, sends us a GPS signal and then we go and pick it up again,” Guggenheim said.
“And from there it could send us data, but the idea is that the mission is so long, that the battery has to be replaced anyways and the environmental DNA filter has to be replaced anyways, so there's no point in sending data back if you have to manually get the data for the environmental DNA filter anyways".
The robot may soon become a crucial and perhaps indispensable tool for marine biologists studying the health and biodiversity of various different reef ecosystems in an attempt to protect and preserve marine wildlife,
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