Home BEAM family tree Sitter Squirmer Slider Crawler Jumper Roller Walker Swimmer Boatbot Subbot Misc. Flier Climber   The BEAM Bestiary is a BEAM Reference Library site.		Swimmers They move on or below the surface of a liquid Swimmers are robots that spend their lives in or on a liquid (generally, water). These are often also called Aquabots, and sometimes (inaccurately) Aquavores. I've broken Swimmers down into 3 sub-categories: Boatbots -- travel on the surface of a liquid. Subbots -- travel under the surface of a liquid. Misc. -- Swimmers that aren't neatly categorized as Boats or Subs (so far, just a tutorial).   For more information... Northeastern University has a site on its underwater robot program (the Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program, BURP for short). Mitsubishi built a complete robotic fish -- there's an article about it here. OK, so it cost $1 Million to build, but it's still pretty neat... Meanwhile, elsewhere in Japan, there are some pretty nifty robotic fish toys for sale (solar powered, no less!). A BBC report on them is here.
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