Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:01 am
Two stories......
ROBO-CARP
October 7, 2005”This week the London Aquarium unveiled the newest "species" to join its collection: robo-carp.
Computer scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. developed the self-guided robot fish, seen here swimming in the aquarium. The designers say it is the smartest such robot yet created”the fish uses artificial intelligence and built-in sensors to avoid obstacles and respond to environmental changes.
The fish's battery lasts for up to five hours, though the scientists hope to one day program it to search for and access a recharging station when it runs low.
"This work has many real-world applications, including seabed exploration, detecting leaks in oil pipelines, mine countermeasures, and improving the performance of underwater vehicles," project leader Huosheng Hu told the Associated Press.
The bot, which resembles a one-and-a-half-foot-long (half-meter-long) common carp, mimics the undulating motions of a real fish swimming and turning. Three of the cyber-fish will swim in a tank at the aquarium alongside their living counterparts.
”Victoria Gilman
Scientists create remote-controlled pigeon
Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to control the bird™s flight remotely, state media have reported.
The Xinhua News Agency said scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro-electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon™s brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.
It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Mr Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.
The report did not specify what purpose the pigeons may perform.
Im not sure which is the more strange. Creating robots that look and move like real animals...Blade Runner....or taking real animals and turning them into remote controlled devises
ROBO-CARP
October 7, 2005”This week the London Aquarium unveiled the newest "species" to join its collection: robo-carp.
Computer scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. developed the self-guided robot fish, seen here swimming in the aquarium. The designers say it is the smartest such robot yet created”the fish uses artificial intelligence and built-in sensors to avoid obstacles and respond to environmental changes.
The fish's battery lasts for up to five hours, though the scientists hope to one day program it to search for and access a recharging station when it runs low.
"This work has many real-world applications, including seabed exploration, detecting leaks in oil pipelines, mine countermeasures, and improving the performance of underwater vehicles," project leader Huosheng Hu told the Associated Press.
The bot, which resembles a one-and-a-half-foot-long (half-meter-long) common carp, mimics the undulating motions of a real fish swimming and turning. Three of the cyber-fish will swim in a tank at the aquarium alongside their living counterparts.
”Victoria Gilman
Scientists create remote-controlled pigeon
Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to control the bird™s flight remotely, state media have reported.
The Xinhua News Agency said scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro-electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon™s brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.
It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Mr Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.
The report did not specify what purpose the pigeons may perform.
Im not sure which is the more strange. Creating robots that look and move like real animals...Blade Runner....or taking real animals and turning them into remote controlled devises