Virginia Tech: Life like, autonomous robotic jellyfish

Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a lifelike, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds, as part of a U. S. Navyfunded project. The prototype robot, nicknamed Cyro, is a larger model of a robotic jellyfish the same team headed by Shashank Priya of Blacksburg, Va. , and professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech unveiled in 2012. The earlier robot, dubbed RoboJelly, is roughly the size