Pagaya Technologies (NASDAQ:PGY) recently completed its business combination with EJF Acquisition Corp. and became a public company with a valuation of around $8 billion. The company has yet to report any formal earnings but I will talk about why I like its prospect in this article. Pagaya is an Israeli company founded in 2016 by the current CEO Gal Krubiner. It is a fintech company that is revolutionizing how financial companies approve and recruit consumers by utilizing AI (artificial intelligence). It enables accurate, real-time consumer credit evaluation through the use of robust AI-driven credit and analytical technology.

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SoFi, directed with the help of a Super Nintendo controller paired with acoustic signals, has been engineered to help researchers explore marine life more freely in depth, and help us get closer to the expansive ecosystem that blooms beyond what our naked eyes can perceive. SoFi is essentially a soft robotic fish structure that consists of a controller, Raspberry Pi, and HiFi Berry, sealed inside a water proof silicone membrane that has been cast moulded. The membrane is also filled with a mineral oil that is non conductive, and allows for equalization underwater. The Raspberry Pi receives input from controller, after which ultrasound signals are amplified for SoFi through the HiFi Berry. These amplified ultrasound signals, which are interpreted by a modem embedded within SoFi's head, controls everything from directing tail movement, pitch and depth, to the on-board camera.

Meet SoFi, the little robotic fish that could help change the way we study the ocean. Created by researchers at MIT, SoFi is capable of swimming alongside real fish without any disturbance, this is due to the robots appearance and movements mimicking that of marine life. SoFi is powered by a smartphone battery and controlled remotely - using ultrasonic signals to communicate. A hydraulic pump moves its flexible, soft silicone tail, allowing it to move nimbly in the water. The robot is still in development, and the team plan to improve its swim speed and design, eventually including technology to allow SoFi to swim autonomously.

Earth's oceans are having a rough go of it these days. On top of being the repository for millions of tons of plastic waste, global warming is affecting the oceans and upsetting marine ecosystems in potentially irreversible ways. Coral bleaching, for example, occurs when warming water temperatures or other stress factors cause coral to cast off the algae that live on them. The coral goes from lush and colorful to white and bare, and sometimes dies off altogether. This has a ripple effect on the surrounding ecosystem.

When exploring marine environments, underwater robots tend to be a bull trout in a china shop, disturbing marine life with their bulk and disruptive propulsion. Enter SoFi, the soft, agile robotic fish with a delicate demeanour. Scientists said they have created a remote-controlled robot that swims quietly through coral reefs and schools of fish and uses a fisheye lens – of course – to capture high-resolution photos and video with a camera built into its nose. Dubbed SoFi, it can swim forward, move up and down, turn and change speeds, propelling itself by wiggling its tail side to side like a real fish, a motion created by pumping water with a small motor into two balloon-like tail chambers. SoFi, built with a generic fish design, is white, weighs less than 1.6kg and is about 47cm long.

Earth's ocean is impossibly vast and difficult for humans to thoroughly explore because, well, they cannot breathe underwater. Short of giving people gills, researchers at MIT found a possible avenue to see more of what lurks in the ocean's depths with less human interference, the Los Angeles Times reported. Meet SoFi, a robotic fish made from affordable materials that can be remotely controlled to realistically and effectively swim against ocean currents and near real fish without much trouble. SoFi was originally outlined in detail in a Science Robotics study. It looks like a fish, but it's not.

Unlike the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, however, this infiltrator was on a peaceful mission. In a new study published in Science Robotics, researchers at MIT unveil what they say is the most advanced robotic fish of its kind ever built. Armed with a camera and a lifelike wiggle, the device could one day help biologists monitor the health of marine habitats without stressing out their aquatic denizens. The Soft Robotic Fish, SoFi for short, is 18.5 inches long from snout to tail and weighs about 3.5 pounds. It can dive 60 feet underwater and is powered by enough juice for about 40 minutes of exploration. As climate change and overfishing wreak havoc on oceans, scientists are racing to study marine life in detail.

Fish, like most animals, have a pretty good idea of which other animals they're cool with, and which animals they're not. Very few animals are cool with humans, and fish are no exception--maybe they're afraid, maybe they're curious, and maybe they'll pretend to ignore you until you get too close, but in any of these cases, your presence is affecting their behavior. We've seen many clever examples of animal behavior researchers using robots to study their subjects up close with minimal disruption, and in a paper published in Science Robotics today, roboticists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory describe a new kind of soft robotic spy fish that can more or less blend right in with everything else living on a coral reef. SoFi, MIT's soft robotic fish, is designed to provide close-range, minimally disruptive observations of all the fascinating and adorable animals that live underwater. The MIT roboticists (Robert K. Katzschmann, Joseph DelPreto, Robert MacCurdy, and Professor Daniela Rus) were careful to make SoFi as similar in size and behavior to a real fish as was possible, but they also had to make it completely self-contained and actually useful--SoFi isn't just a proof-of-concept for the design of a biomimetic robotic fish, it's a real research tool, with a friendly control system, and practical battery life.

A robotic fish might be able to unlock secrets about marine life that is hard for researchers to access, according to a new report. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a robotic fish called SoFi that was tested in Fiji. SoFi was able to swim more than 50 feet below the surface of the water and for 40 minutes nonstop. The researchers behind the new study, published in Science Robotics, say robotic fish technology could help scientists learn more about organisms that are hard for humans to get to to study. MIT researchers developed a robotic fish that can swim alongside real fish and take photographs of marine life that is hard for humans to access.