
It looks like a fish and moves in an impressively piscine manner, but it doesn't smell like a fish. That's because the creature pictured above is in fact a robot.
Part of a three-year European Commission-funded project co-ordinated by BMT Group, a Teddington-based engineering and risk management consultancy, these autonomous battery-powered devices are shortly to be released into the sea for the first time to help combat water pollution. If you're planning on going fishing in the port of Gijón in northern Spain this summer, you may get more than you bargained for...








