When fishers on Lake Chilwa cast their nets, they don’t know whether there are fish below, or something else entirely. “We ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Meet SoFi, the little robotic fish that could help change the way we study the ocean. Created by researchers at MIT, SoFi is capable of swimming alongside real fish ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sepios is a highly maneuverable robot that can swim underwater. Its undulating fins mimic that of a cuttlefish, allowing the robot to blend into its underwater ...

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as ...