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Description

Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets underwater. Schools of swimming robots would be able to work together to do things that one could not do alone, such as tracking large herds of animals or mapping expanses of pollution that can grow and change shape.

Summary

Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets underwater. Schools of swimming robots would be able to work together to do things that one could not do alone, such as tracking large herds of animals or mapping expanses of pollution that can grow and change shape.

Subtitle
Faux fish on a mission
Duration
1:30
Publishing date
2009-12-14 07:12
Link
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/usnewssciencediscoveries/~3/cxg1CIxrrOo/66064
Contributors
  National Science Foundation
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Enclosures
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/usnewssciencediscoveries/~5/BYNGyY897J8/reservoir_bots.mp3
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