IT Home January 31 news, on the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park welcomed a huge new friend - bionic whale shark. The bionic whale shark highly restores the various movements of the real whale shark, which is not only cool, but also full of technology.
During the Chinese New Year, the world's first bionic whale shark appeared at the Volcano Shark Pavilion. Almost the same as the real whale shark, this 4.7-meter-long "whale shark" weighs 350 kilograms and can complete straight lines, turns, floats, dives, fixed depths, mouth opening and closing, gill splitting and other actions in the water, with wireless remote control, program-controlled swimming and autonomous swimming and other control methods. Despite its massive size, the Whale Shark is flexible and flexible, with a maximum swimming speed of 0.7 m/s and the ability to dive into water up to 10 meters deep.
The "Mom and Dad" of the bionic whale shark is the doctoral team of Shenyang Aerospace Xinguang Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Aerospace Xinguang Group"). Aerospace Xinguang Group is the earliest aerospace power development enterprise in the mainland, and has developed multi-type solid and liquid rocket engines; they also provide key technologies and products for lunar exploration engineering and scientific satellite exploration, among which the development and production of connection separation mechanisms and other products have ensured the successful launch of "Shenzhou No. 1" to "Shenzhou No. 10".