Nissan Motor experts have designed a robot based on their studies of fish and how they swim in schools and avoid bumping into one another. The robot has been designed to travel in a group of seven and can avoid collision by sharing its information with the others.
"We, in a motorised world, have a lot to learn from the behaviour of a school of fish in terms of each fish's degree of freedom and safety," Toshiyuki Andou, the principal engineer in the project, told the AFP.
By sharing information, the group can travel safely, changing its shape as needed, he added.
The robot is three-wheeled and uses a laser range finder and radio communications to imitate the behaviour of fish.
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Date Published: October 05, 2009
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