A First: Robotic Fish Reacts to Live Ones (IMAGE)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

A First: Robotic Fish Reacts to Live Ones

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Until now, scientists studying zebrafish -- used widely in laboratories to study social behavior - had to be content to observe how the real fish responded to biomimetic robots. Now researchers at NYU Tandon, using advances in real-time tracking software and robotics, have designed the first closed-loop control system featuring a robot interacting in three dimensions with live zebrafish. The system allows the robotic replica to both 'see' and mimic the behavior of live zebrafish in real time.

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