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Fish Are Stupid: Giant Robotic Fish Attracts Tankmates

June 8, 2012 / animals, catch and release? more like catch and stomp until it starts smoking and explodes, fish, great now i want to go noodling and get myself a big ol catfish on my arm -- oh you want to eat that do you? TOO BAD, great now they're herding our fish, if i caught this guy fishing i would bat it to death just so we're clear, oh great, robots, stupid fish are stupid, swimming

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A group of American and Italian scientists recently painted a robotic fish to resemble a pregnant female zebra fish, then placed it in a tank of real zebra fish. Those fish all swam right up to it because fish are stupid. And I'm not just saying that because mine used to jump out of their tank and I'd find them dried up on the carpet, but if they were smart that have known how much that affected me and never have done it.

The feat is the latest milestone on a path to using autonomous robots in an open body of water to monitor and control fish behavior in order to protect them, according to the team.


"We would like to use these robots for guiding fish away from danger," Maurizio Porfiri, an engineer at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, told me today.

For example, the robots could be used to steer fish away from an oil spill, or lure invasive fish into a net, he said.

Ah yes, the old "steering fish away from oil spills" tactic. Hey -- you know what kind of oil is actually good for fish? Deep fryer oil. "Fish sticks?" Fish sticks, homey. I'll get the tartar.

Thanks to jimmy, who agrees all fish are stupid as shit except that one from The Little Mermaid. He was at least smart enough to hang out with Ariel all the time and probably got to see her without her seashells on.

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  • proteon nine

    Fish are stupid because they follow a robot that looks like them while halfway around the world the Japanese have invented a robot to soothe you to death. We're dumber than fish.

  • There is no such thing as fish.

  • You mean male fish are just as desperate as human males who try to build sex robots.

  • Guest

    I hope that predators will be able to tell the difference so they don't get a mouth full of metal and plastic.

  • Rhinostic

    I thought the biggest threat to the world's fishes were the Japanese. So the Italians (great on design, kinda so-so on actual production) are going to protect the world's fish from the Japanese (so-so on design, frickin awesome at production) with robotic fish

  • Eric Stodolnik

    no video?
    who gives a shit.
    boring. dumb post.

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