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HTTP:: New Surveillance Fish Soon to Patrol Waters
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Collecting live information from inside fish colonies and marine ecosystems was never an easy task for naturalists and documentary reporters. The human factor is always tainting the results of studies, and it therefore needs to be eliminated. This is precisely what a new type of robotic fish will do, in addition to providing scientists with up-to-date pollution readings. The small robots will also investigate submarine structures, such as sunken ships and coral reefs, and will do so without disturbing any other marine species, LiveScience reports. The new fish were produced by a team of mechanical engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including recent PhD recipient Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado and colleague Kamal Youcef-Toumi. Their model, which is about a foot long, is able to go in places where autonomous diving robots cannot. The technology used to make the fish is not new, having been demonstrated as far back as 1994. However, unlike the old, fo!
ur-foot-long robot (which had 2,843 parts and six motors), the new one has only a single motor, and ten individual components, strategically placed inside the robotic model. Rather than having a propeller, the new construct moves ahead by generating a wave-like motion in its midsection, which is precisely how real fish go about moving ar...
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