BREED Robotics Fish Project (formerly known as the Vayu Project), a student team supported by the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing and the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, broke its previous Guinness World Record of the“Fastest 50 m swim by a Robotic Fish” on October 10, 2020, with a time of 22.92s beating it by a wide margin of 3.87s. The world records set by human swimmers in long course swimming pools ratified by International Swimming Federation (FINA), the robotic fish surpasses the Men’s 50 m backstroke (24s) and 50 m breaststroke (25.9s), Women’s 50 m freestyle (23.67s), 50 m butterfly (24.43s) and the 50m backstroke (26.98s).
BREED Robotics is a young robotics group founded as a collaboration between faculty and students. The staff-student based robotics group emerged because of a fruitful discussion between Mr. Timothy NG, a graduate from HKU Mechanical Engineering and the lead research scientist of the group and Muhammad Saad Shahid Anwel (president of BREED) with supervision fromDr. F. Zhang, Assistant Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Besides the two world records, the group also won the “InnoShow Award Project” for the Third InnoShow held by the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing of the Faculty of Engineering, and the first runner-up for the “6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition” organised by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association and HKSTP.
Guinness World Record website: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/413784-fastest-50-metres-by-a-robotic-fish#:~:text=The%20fastest%2050%20m%20swim,the%20University%20of%20Hong%20Kong.