Professor Tao Kai's team from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University independently developed a bionic robot "Underwater Ghost" that looks like a jellyfish and is completely transparent. The robot is almost indistinguishable to the naked eye when hidden underwater and can be used for intelligent detection and real-time monitoring tasks.
The robot is 120 mm in diameter and weighs 56 grams. It uses the team's original electrostatic hydraulic muscle actuator and hydrogel electrode material to accurately simulate the motion posture of a real jellyfish using a vortex ring to propel it. It has the ability to operate efficiently and almost silently underwater.
The power consumption of the entire drive array is extremely low, only 28.5 milliwatts, providing a technical foundation for long-term concealed underwater operations.
The research team also deeply integrated artificial intelligence into the bionic platform.Equipped with a miniature camera and an embedded AI processing chip, the robot has achieved stable hovering in a dynamic water environment and can accurately identify specific underwater targets.
According to Professor Tao Kai, this bionic jellyfish robot, with its low power consumption, low noise and high bionic characteristics, has shown unique advantages in application scenarios such as deep-sea covert monitoring, ecologically sensitive area observation, and fine inspection of underwater facilities. It provides a new solution for breaking through the key technical bottlenecks in deep-sea extreme environment detection.
