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a robot anchovy with optional human remote control to shoal with the rest of them [realistic from the fish's point of veiw] and then switch on the remote and send it swimming in an unexpected direction and disrupt the fish, or perhaps move to the middle and move as a predator
then watch what chaos
follows
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Wouldn't this idea be better used to shoal anchovies into a net? For fishing... though every now and then someone might end up with a robot anchovey on their pizza. |
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technobadger! I would love to see this concept broadened to the world of social behavior. A robo-cultist which follows along with cult behavior to a point and then suddenly becomes nonconformist, for instance. |
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Nonconformist robo-cultists were baked rather thoroughly in the '60's and '70's. Some of them went from burning bras to designing them; others never did get over it. They're the ones now deemed nonconformist by their 'turncoat' compatriots in the proletarian struggle against The Establishment. |
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There was a similar simulation of birds' flocking behaviour, using virtual birds called 'boids', possibly the best indication that researchers often have a well-developed sense of humour. |
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Thumbwax: How can you tell if a fish is drooling? |
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Thoity doity boids, sittin' on a coib, choipin' and boipin', eatin' doity oithwoims... |
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Maybe it's just my weird body chemistry, but I find real anchovies to have kind of a metallic aftertaste. |
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All the mercury contamination... |
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Imagine a robotic humpback whale... |
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