This is the next-gen lionfish vacuuming robot

Roboticists have the strangest pet projects. For Colin Angle, it’s vacuuming up lionfish. The iRobot CEO is also the cofounder of RSE (that’s Robots in Service of the Environment), a volunteer-based organization designed to create what it says in the name. The organization’s first project, announced back in 2017, is a robot designed to capture […]

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Man gets hit in the face by a flying fish in extreme slow motion

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We probably wouldn’t recommend riding a rubber ring through a river containing flying fish — it’s evidently not great for the human or the fish involved — but if you are going to do it, you might as well capture the results in slow motion.

That’s exactly what YouTubers The Slow Mo Guys have done in their latest video.

The result — in which Dan gets smacked in the head by a particularly hefty Asian carp — is certainly not something you see every day. Read more…

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Researchers are putting fish into augmented reality tanks

Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, while testing the “station keeping” functions of the glass knifefish, have created an augmented reality system that tricks the animal’s electric sensing organs in real time. The fish keeps itself hidden by moving inside of its various holes/homes and the researchers wanted to understand what kind of […]

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A horrifyingly massive fish washed up on a beach in Australia

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Forget romantic strolls on the beach, discovering the body of a giant fish sounds like a lot more fun.

Images of an enormous fish that washed up on the beach in Queensland, Australia have gone viral.

Fish and chips anyone? This mystery fish washed up on a beach on #Bundaberg’s coast in #Qld: https://t.co/raFKutnxgG @abcnews pic.twitter.com/6nkh6O61Fx

— Jess Lodge (@jess_lodge) March 8, 2018

According to ABC News the swimmy boi was found by couple John and Riley Lindholm while taking a walk on Moore Park Beach on Tuesday. John Lindholm told ABC he estimated the fish to be 1.5m to 1.7m long, and probably weighed from 150kg to 170kg. Read more…

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