Studying Fish Movements For Better Road Safety
Robots that mimic fish movements
Ever heard of a fish pile up? I guess that’s what promoted the engineers over at Nissan to study the movements of schools of fish, to try and come up with a solution to keep the roads safe from accidents.
Hoping to create safer cars, engineers at Nissan are studying the movements of schools of fish and developed robots to mimic their nimble motions, and help drivers avoid crashes in the future.
Using a laser range finder and radio communications, the three-wheeled rather odd shaped bots determine where obstacles are and avoid them, also sharing information with each other to avoid collisions, and deftly change directions while traveling alongside each other like a school fish.
Nissan, which previously created robots based on the movements of bumblebees, hopes to develop vehicles using this technology in the future. [Via]
