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VIDEO: Robot Fish to Detect Ocean Pollution
nationalgeographic ^ | March 20, 2009 | Christine Dell'Amore

Posted on 03/20/2009 3:54:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono

If it looks like a fish and swims like a fish, it usually is a fish. But not this new, lifelike robot fish developed by U.K. scientists. (Raw video below.) The prototype robot fish, modeled after carp, have been swimming around the London Aquarium as they await their release off northern Spain in 2011.

Equipped with tiny chemical sensors, the fish will collect data on pollution in the port of Gijón and wirelessly transmit the information back to the port's control center.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fish; oceanography; robot

1 posted on 03/20/2009 3:54:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Do Androids filet Robot Fish?


2 posted on 03/20/2009 3:56:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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To: JoeProBono
Do you need stink-bait to catch that sucker?...just askin'

FMCDH(BITS)

3 posted on 03/20/2009 4:04:21 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nickcarraway

only in their dreams /PKD


4 posted on 03/20/2009 4:21:05 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
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To: NonValueAdded

What an author, eh?


5 posted on 03/20/2009 4:42:57 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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