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Not sure about this particular experiment, but there is certainly interesting potential in integrating biological organisms (or parts thereof) with larger robot
by lioeters 1y ago
Not sure about this particular experiment, but there is certainly interesting potential in integrating biological organisms (or parts thereof) with larger robotic and mechanical systems.
Recently I saw a video of a turtle which was given a skateboard. It quickly learned how to zip around the house, chasing the cat, etc. It was a simple demostration of how technology, even as primitive as the wheel, can augment the abilities of an organism - especially a living being with sensors (eyes) and neural network (brain).
It also reminds me of the goldfish in a bowl, attached to a small motorized vehicle, which was given the ability to navigate it by swimming in different directions. It soon learned to use this system as an extension of its body, exploring the house, bumping into things like a Roomba with a live brain.
Suppose it's in the same field of exploration as those super-soldiers with Gundam-style body suits and computerized helmets projecting a live data feed to their retinas, maybe eventually embedding neural connectors directly in the head.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoRegarding the turtle and the goldfish, how can we really say these animals learned how to operate these things? I’m not sure I’d be able to tell the difference between a goldfish just swimming around the tank like normal versus one swimming around the tank with intention.
- akdor1154 1y agoI assume a fish that didn’t understand what was going on would just run into walls? Or at most just move towards lights?
- BalinKing 1y agoThe top-level comment indeed says that the fish was bumping into things like a Roomba, so I’m also skeptical....
- trhway 1y agojudge for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhp7U0rwdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhp7U0rwdM
- lioeters 1y agoOh that's a more proper study than the amateur experiment I saw. > For this purpose, we trained goldfish to use a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV), a wheeled terrestrial platform that reacts to the fish’s movement characteristics, location and orientation in its water tank to change the vehicle’s; i.e., the water tank’s, position in the arena. > The fish were tasked to “drive” the FOV towards a visual target in the terrestrial environment, which was observable through the walls of the tank, and indeed were able to operate the vehicle, explore the new environment, and reach the target regardless of the starting point, all while avoiding dead-ends and correcting location inaccuracies. From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432821005994?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01664...
- trhway 1y agolets start working our beliefs up from easier places : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ImDYrPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ImDYrPY https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7H2IDc-5QdQ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7H2IDc-5QdQ
- DougN7 1y agoYou’ll need to watch the video of the turtle. It was actively chasing a cat around, so it definitely knew what it was doing.
- lioeters 1y agoTiny Turtle Follows Cat On a Skateboard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbtAYPSapw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbtAYPSapw
- istjohn 1y agoAlso see Project Pigeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
- lioeters 1y agoGood ol' B.F. Skinner. Apparently the idea was pretty solid but he had trouble getting people to take it seriously.