These 5ft (1.5m) long fish won't be a swarm in the intuitive sense, but there will be multiple of them. Nice application.
"EU Commissions Swarm of Robot Fish to Sniff Our Pollution in Ports
The systems the EU is buying for a pollution control project are one of the rare robotic systems shaped like animals for practical reasons, not just for looks.
Researchers in Southern England have won part of a European Union contract with a sophisticated, autonomous, marine-locomotive pollution detector that looks astonishingly like a fish.
The 2.5 million-pound ($3.6 million) contract was awarded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for SHOAL a project whose name looks like an acronym but isn’t, whose goal is to use robot fish to sniff out and report pollution in Europe’s harbors and rivers."
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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