What could be cooler than swimming with a dolphin? Perhaps swimming with a dolphin’s cruelty-free animatronic doppelgänger? American engineering company Edge Innovations is hoping that for most water ...

Imagine, if you will, that David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau was put in charge of a technologically advanced theme park like the one on the TV series Westworld, offering visitors a plethora of ...

Anybody who’s already having trouble parsing out reality may want to buckle up. Because animatronics are apparently ready to supplant real animals. At the very least, this robot dolphin from Edge ...

It’s not hard to convince people to want to hang out with a robot dolphin instead of the real thing. By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine Published Oct 7, 2022 6:05 PM EDT This article was originally ...

HAYWARD, Calif. — Darting around the pool as swimmers stand in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks. But this marine ...

You don’t need to have seen documentaries like The Cove to feel uneasy about whales, sharks, and dolphins being held captive in tiny tanks at aquariums and theme parks. But instead of eliminating ...

San Francisco tech company Edge Innovations has created an animatronic dolphin that can last over a decade in salt water without any maintenance. “Judging from footage of it in a pool, you’d be hard ...

We are riding a surprising wave of enthusiasm for aquariums in the United States. Groups from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to New York City to Memphis, Tenn., to Detroit to Shreveport, La., to St. Louis have ...