Researchers at the University of Essex have developed a robotic fish to analyse pollution levels in the open waters, such as ports. Not only is it completely autonomous, but to help it do its job, they have also given it the looks and behaviour of a normal fish. Communicating via Wi-Fi, the fish also know when they are running low on power and automatically return to their base.
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Fascinating and scary at the same time. BigDog, as this monster is called, is 1m tall and 2m wide and was developed by Boston Dynamics, a robots company with funding from the US military. Is this the beginning of the end à la Terminator?