Sunday, November 2, 2008

Bionic Jellyfish : Festo's AquaJelly


AquaJelly is an artificial autonomous jellyfish in water, a self-controlling system which emulates swarming behaviour. The watertight laser-sintered body houses a central electric motor, the two lithium-ion polymer batteries, the recharging control unit and the servo motors.

AquaJelly uses short range radio communication to emulate its real/organic counterpart. Multiple AquaJelly(s) will act like a jellyfish swarm. .pdf on the top right of the page elaborates more on the project.

Exactly the kind of research I wanna be doing in 10 yrs time. Emulating, improving & redefining nature, humans included.

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