Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling.
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| author | Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O |
| author_facet | Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O |
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| contents | Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling. Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O Ocean monitoring is essential for understanding climate change and marine ecosystem dynamics, yet achieving comprehensive global coverage remains a challenge in oceanography. Current technologies face limitations in cost, power, hardware, and depth capacity that restrict widespread monitoring capabilities. Here we show that biohybrid robotic jellyfish () can serve as autonomous vertical ocean profilers by integrating microcontrollers with positively buoyant sensor payloads, achieving controlled vertical-profiling capabilities. Laboratory experiments demonstrated repeatable up-down trajectories, quantified force balance limits, and identified predictable, size-dependent descent swimming speeds. Field deployments in Massachusetts coastal waters and the open ocean off the Florida Keys demonstrated field operation to ocean depths >25 m with successful in situ temperature and depth measurements. To our knowledge, this represents the first biohybrid jellyfish platform to combine autonomous, pressure-triggered vertical profiling with onboard oceanographic sensing in natural marine environments. This approach leverages the global distribution and remarkable swimming efficiency of living jellyfish while eliminating propulsion power requirements by utilizing the animal's natural swimming capabilities. While further development is required for long-term ocean deployment, this study lays the groundwork for a new class of biohybrid ocean-sensing platforms with advantages in cost, power, and mission flexibility, providing a pathway toward dense sensor networks and increased ocean monitoring observations. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling. Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling. Rutledge, Kelsi M Colin, Sean P Costello, John H Yoder, Noa Anuszczyk, Simon R Sutherland, Kelly R Gemmell, Brad L Dabiri, John O Ocean monitoring is essential for understanding climate change and marine ecosystem dynamics, yet achieving comprehensive global coverage remains a challenge in oceanography. Current technologies face limitations in cost, power, hardware, and depth capacity that restrict widespread monitoring capabilities. Here we show that biohybrid robotic jellyfish () can serve as autonomous vertical ocean profilers by integrating microcontrollers with positively buoyant sensor payloads, achieving controlled vertical-profiling capabilities. Laboratory experiments demonstrated repeatable up-down trajectories, quantified force balance limits, and identified predictable, size-dependent descent swimming speeds. Field deployments in Massachusetts coastal waters and the open ocean off the Florida Keys demonstrated field operation to ocean depths >25 m with successful in situ temperature and depth measurements. To our knowledge, this represents the first biohybrid jellyfish platform to combine autonomous, pressure-triggered vertical profiling with onboard oceanographic sensing in natural marine environments. This approach leverages the global distribution and remarkable swimming efficiency of living jellyfish while eliminating propulsion power requirements by utilizing the animal's natural swimming capabilities. While further development is required for long-term ocean deployment, this study lays the groundwork for a new class of biohybrid ocean-sensing platforms with advantages in cost, power, and mission flexibility, providing a pathway toward dense sensor networks and increased ocean monitoring observations. |
| title | Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish for Swimming-Enhanced Vertical Ocean Profiling. |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42187392/ |