Japanese scientists have waaaay

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Found this PFK article and it made me laugh, japanese have way to big a military budgets and time on their hands ;

Goldfish scooping robot;

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...em.php?news=706

I mean, i dread to think of the test trial training for those poor fish !
And those goldifsh scooping festivals......

 

[fish_keeper2]

one question.........wtf is the point to inventing this "robot". absolutely pointless...................

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

one question.........wtf is the point to inventing this "robot". absolutely pointless...................

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Goldfish scooping festivals of course !

 

[fish_keeper2]

ive never been to one before. what are they like?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

ive never been to one before. what are they like?

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Don't ask me, never been to one- i'd probably want to save all the fish

 

[fish_keeper2]

lol...same here

 

[SuckerLove86]

The thing I find funny... look at the url...

PRACTICAL fish keeping.

....what's practical about scooping goldfish? Now if it fed my fish, added exact dosages of meds when needed, or scrubbed the sides of my tank, that'd be practical.

but scooping fish?

 

[Ben]

PFK wern't the ones who invented that machine SuckerLove86
They are just reporting on it, being practical
I agree...too much time on their hands, stick with nets
DD

 

[Ethos]

Mhmhmh...Thats kindof intresting...who do you think came up with the funding for that project?

 

[Nospherith]

the robot is essentially a mechanical arm with an overhead camera, which is all rigged up to a computer which tracks the fish in the pool below.

The computer predicts where and when the arm should swoop in order to catch the goldfish.

It seems this robot is just another artificial intelligence project, specifically "hand-eye" coordination if you will. Instead of programming it to do something boring, like playing tennis so that you can have completely robotic tennis matches, they make it do something fun and interesting like... goldfish scooping.

 

[IMCL85]

robot omg they r just too bored lol. Nothing to do all day but making robot.

 

[andywg]

The internals behind this are quite intriguing. As mentioned it is a step towards hand-eye co-ordination as well as creating a prediction logarithm to work in the real world (rather than on pure statistical probability).