LAKE CHILWA, Malawi — When fishers on Lake Chilwa cast their nets, they don’t know whether there are fish below, or something else entirely. “We don’t go out in the lake to check what we have where.

Microplastics are found in oceans and waterways all over the world. We are only just beginning to understand the damage they ...

An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have created a robotic fish that doesn’t just collect plastic pollution; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What was once an idea submitted by a student for a university contest is now a working — or rather, swimming — prototype that ...

A new eco-friendly aquatic robot is made from fish food. The edible machine utilizes biodegradable fuel and surface tension to zip around the water’s surface. It creates a safe and nutritious ...

A new framework has been designed to push forward swarm intelligence, the branch of AI that mimics the group behaviors of birds, fish, and bees. The coordinated movement of robots could improve search ...

Implications for next-generation underwater robots By dynamically switching between swimming modes, the robotic fish overcame the traditional trade-off between speed and maneuverability. Tests in ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...