It looks like a fish, it moves like a fish, but it is actually an autonomous robot. Designed by mechanical engineering students at ETH Zurich, ‘Belle’ uses AI to navigate its location while taking isolated e-DNA samples and high-resolution videos underwater.
People living in Switzerland have been privy to witnessing a patrol bot, developed by a robotics start-up from ETH Zurich called Ascento, that could soon take the place of human security guards.