With recent advances in robotics, having a ’sea’ robot / fish robot isn’t all that surprising, but the amount of detail this atypical fish has got is truly incredible. Called the Tai-robot-kun (I presume Japanese), has been built with a surprising amount of detail on the outside anatomically, even the scales have been hand painted precision.

This is important for its role, because the Tai-robot-kun is actually going to be helping some marine researchers out. Its role will be to use its built-in sensors and cameras to survey the ocean without disturbing other marine life. One thing I’m worried about is its diguise, its so real, what if it runs into predators!?

Check out this video when it gets placed into water…

[via Robot Watch]