Israeli researchers train fish to drive robotic car:
A goldfish has successfully driven a robotic car, claims new research from Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discovered as part of an experiment to explore animal behavior.
The researchers wanted to know whether animals' innate navigational abilities are universal or are restricted to their home environments. Taking the premise to the extreme, they designed a set of wheels under a goldfish tank with a camera system to record and translate the fish's movements into forward and back and side-to-side directions to the wheels. By doing so, they discovered that a goldfish's navigational ability supersedes its watery environs.
Their findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Behavioural Brain Research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432821005994?via%3Dihub
The researchers tested whether the fish was really navigating by placing a clearly visible target on the wall opposite the tank. After a few days of training, the fish navigated to the target. Moreover, they were able to do so even if they were interrupted in the middle by hitting a wall, and they were not fooled by false targets placed by the researchers.
Link includes a video that is pretty convincing. The fish does at least as good of a job as the early qualifying attempts I saw for the first Grand Challenge Darpa competition.
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:25PM (1 child)
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Maybe Tesla could accelerate their auto-driver development by adding a few C. auratus processors in clear tanks on the corners of the vehicles?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @12:29AM
Had not seen that show, thanks for the link.
(Score: 2, Funny) by gawdonblue on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:28PM
Will drive the car straight into the river and occupy its west bank.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday January 18 2022, @09:35PM (1 child)
I used to throw fishing lines with no hook but a float into the local lake with friends. Idea being, fishing is fun and productive. Sitting under a tree reading a book is a waste of time.
I'm actually not kidding here. When I was a kid dad took me hook and release fishing, and I never believed the fish were happy campers in that scenario.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 18 2022, @10:19PM
In the event that you crimp the barb on the hook when doing catch and release, it's not as bad. In the event a fish swallows an uncrimped hook, that sucker is toast.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday January 18 2022, @10:17PM
Then again:
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:37AM
Being jews all they can think of is money.
Gold-fish, silver-fish, shekel-fish...
Jews may include 'gold' in their names but they will never be golden. They will forever remain the parasitic race they are.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 19 2022, @07:24AM (2 children)
They should have used a swarm of fish to drive the car. It surely would have worked better, because of swarm intelligence. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @11:46AM
Looks like a pretty cheap experiment to repeat...
Have fun building a larger fish tank on top of a Roomba!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:20PM
They're smarter because they've been in schools.