Fish Play Follow-the-Leader With Robofish, to Save Them From Turbine Doom

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Scientists have discovered that real schools of real fish can be steered along by artificial robot fish. Weird. But the news has big implications for green power production.

NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory, using the scientific thinking of Dr. Maurizio Porfiri, have been studying how schools of fish interact with an artificial "dominant" fish. The work is partly for the sheer scientific curiosity, but also because of interest in how wild fish may be directed through the ocean to...