If It Looks Like a Fish and Swims Like a Fish, It Might Just Be a Robot

Scientists have developed a soft robot that looks so much like a real fish that it can swim unobtrusively alongside marine life while capturing still-and video images.

MIT scientists have debuted a lifelike robotic fish that can swim in the ocean by remote operation. Photo: Tom Buehler/MIT CSAIL

Scientists have developed a soft robot that looks so much like a real fish that it can swim unobtrusively alongside marine life while capturing still-and video images.

The robot, created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has fins that help it dive and a silicone rubber tail that moves like an actual fish.

The scientists, who described...