Aberdeen-based Verlume and a consortium of partners has developed an autonomous underwater robot that moves like a fish and aims to enable efficient offshore inspection in harsh and hard-to-reach environments.
The agile biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), named RoboFish, is made up of several self-contained modules, with a self-managed battery and actuator control to help it move around underwater structures.
RoboFish was initially devised by researchers at the University of York, the Department of Electrical Engineering and the University of Strathclyde, the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering - with grant support from the EPSRC Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub.
