Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ subsidiary, Ryomei Engineering, together with two Hiroshima based engineering companies, unveiled its quarter of a million dollar robot fish. The robot fish was modelled after a Nishiki Koi carp from where it got its name, and debuted at a pond of the Hiroshima Machinery Works in 2006.
The robot Koi has a white body with few bright red spots. Its tail is capable of making smooth and almost realistic tail movements. It can even do things that a real Koi cannot do, like swimming in reverse and rotates while in place.
Ryomei Engineering, whose feats include the sea bream, a prehistoric coelacanth and the golden carp, aims to use the Nishiki Koi to observe other fishes in the ocean, and to survey the oilrigs and pipes for any damages.
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