When scientists are using remote-control submersibles to study deep-sea organisms, it's understandable that they'd want to harmlessly capture fragile-bodied animals such as jellyfish or octopi in ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. To call someone “spineless” is an insult on land, but in the ocean, it’s simply a sensible ...

It simply folds around jellyfish, squid, and other delicate organisms. OOPS! SORRY, SQUID. When researchers want to study fish and crustaceans, it's pretty easy to collect a sample — tow a net behind ...

(NEW YORK, NY) --Scientists have tried to find the safest and most effective ways to explore marine life in the oceanic water, the largest and least explored environment on Earth, for years. Each time ...

A new robotic grabber wants to be the very best, like no sampler ever was. To catch deep-sea creatures is its real test; to release them safely is its cause. This real-life Poké Ball, unveiled in ...

US researchers have created an origami-inspired device for gently capturing delicate sea creatures to study and return to the ocean. RAD (rotary actuated dodecahedron), was developed by a team from ...