One day in the close future , when humanity has killed off all the Pisces in the sea , we ’ll be able to replace every unmarried on of them using the research of University of Washington UW assistant prof Kristi Morgansen . That ’s because Morgansen , with her 10,000 - Imperial gallon UW mental test tankful , has almost perfected an autonomous robofish , which needs only other robofish and a basic set of commands to operate wirelessly underwater . They ’ll be Cylons of the Sea . Like tuna , with nukes .
Morgansen design the robofish to explore the deep profoundness of the ocean , as well as seek out other locations where the surroundings is lethal to human beings . They ’ll do this all without any treatment from people , other automaton or even satellites . The group would do just like an organic Pisces and form a schooling , with prevailing personality leading the way even if certain robofish received incomplete or garbled teaching .
“ In schooling and herding beast , you’re able to get much more efficient maneuvers and smoother behaviors than what we can do in engineering right now , ” Morgansen enunciate . “ The idea of these experiment [ with schools of live fish ] is to ask , ‘ How are they doing it ? ’ and see if we can occur up with some approximation . ”
school also serve fight the effect of water on wireless communication . optimum underwater data transfer rates are approximately 80 bytes , or about 32 numbers , per second , but the robofishes ’ simple two - command retentivity structure ( swim in the same direction or swim in different directions ) stand for tasks get done anyway . The automaton expend fins and a stern , instead of a propellor , because they ’re more maneuverable and create down in the mouth drag . [ University of Washington ]
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