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A robot that swims with the fishes

by Liza on Jul. 30th, 2010
It's Friday, so it's time for a new Science Friday video. (I know, I've missed a few weeks. Sorry about that.) Science Friday
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"Based on mathematical models of the movement of fish, Maurizio Porfiri, an engineering professor at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, designed a robotic fish. When Porfiri puts the robofish in the lab pool with real fish, the minnows (golden shiners and giant danios) will mill about the robot and even follow it around.
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