In the War on Animals, we may have to rely on non-human sources to help us win. We mean robots, at which, technically, we are also at war. A rising trend is to build robots that mimic the beasts themselves, then we gain their trust, learn their secrets, and destroy them from the inside.
We’ve tested it successfully on squirrels, now science has taken us underwater. Researchers from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Instituto Superiore di Sanitá in Italy have teams up to create a huge-ass fish robot. In seems clear that the scientists intended it to mock the fish’s intelligence by proving that they are so dumb they will accept a terribly painted robofish several times their size as one of their own.
Before long, the fish were following it around, probably accepting it as their new leader. Folks, we know how to beat them, let’s get to work.