Underwater self-powered soft robot, Zhejiang Lab, China Artificial Intelligence Town, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China

On March 4, 2021, a latest achievement created by the joint research team from Zhejiang Lab (ZJ Lab) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) was published on Nature as a cover story titled "Self-powered Soft Robot in the Mariana Trench." Focusing on bionic deep-sea soft robots, Chinese scientists created the first soft robot that can operate at the deepest spot in the ocean.

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Scientists from Zhejiang, China have developed a bionic soft robot in a bid to make deep-water exploration easier and more environmentally friendly.

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Researchers developed an untethered, self-powered, soft robot for deep-sea exploration inspired by deep-sea snailfish. The robot was able of free swimming in the South China Sea at the depth of 3,224 m and proved flapping actuation in the Mariana Trench at the depth of 10,900 m.
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Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench
Guorui Li, Xiangping Chen, Fanghao Zhou, Yiming Liang, Youhua Xiao, Xunuo Cao, Zhen Zhang, Mingqi Zhang, Baosheng Wu, Shunyu Yin, Yi Xu, Hongbo Fan, Zheng Chen, Wei Song, Wenjing Yang, Binbin Pan, Jiaoyi Hou, Weifeng Zou, Shunping He, Xuxu Yang, Guoyong Mao, Zheng Jia, Haofei Zhou, Tiefeng Li, Shaoxing Qu, Zhongbin Xu, Zhilong Huang, Yingwu Luo, Tao Xie, Jason Gu, Shiqiang Zhu & Wei Yang
Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03153-z
China Central Television

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