British scientists have developed a robotic fish are released into the sea in northern Spain to detect pollution. If the next year (2010, eds), The first experiment using five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port of Gijon is successful, the team expects robots of fish can be used in rivers, lakes and oceans around the world to detect pollution.
Carp-shaped robot, with a cost of £ 20,000 ($ 29,000), able to mimic the movements of fish and are equipped with chemical sensors to detect potentially harmful pollutants, such as leakage from the ship or underwater pipeline. They will send information back to shore by using Wi-Fi technology. Unlike previous robotic fish, these fish robot can navigate autonomously without human interaction.
Rory Doyle, senior scientists at the engineering firm BMT Group, which developed a robotic fish with scientists at the University of Essex, said there were good reasons to make fish-shaped robot, rather than a form similar to a conventional submarine. "By using the robotic fish, we create a design created by hundreds of millions of years by the remarkable evolution and energy efficient," he said. "Efficiency of robot fish is not necessary to ensure that pollution detection sensors to navigate under the sea to the environment at the end of the month." Fish robot has a length of 1.5 meters (nearly 5 feet), almost the size of seal.
Source: Reuters
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