The project of underwater bionic robotic fish co-developed by the Institute of Robot under Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) and the Institute of Automation under Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has passed the relevant check and test on 5 Dec. Featuring outstanding creativeness the achievement of the project has laid an important theoretic and practical basis for the engineering of underwater navigating objects.

The experiment shows the underwater bionic robotic fish, which has independent intellectual property right of China, has the advantages of stability, flexible movement, automatic navigation control and underwater operation for two-three hours at a speed of 4 kilometres per hour. Additionally, the robotic fish also sees bright future for use in the fields of underwater archaeology, photography, mapping, water cultivation and fishing as well as underwater carrying of small-sized object.