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With the rapidly advancing pace of robotics and the decent number of fishbots we’ve seen over the years, it was only a matter of time before real fish melded with real machine. The Fish on Wheels project is essentially a fish-bowl go-kart that uses motion-tracking software to drive the Fish on Wheels whatever direction it happens to swim.
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A camera mounted above the tank allows it to 'watch' the fish to see what direction to drive in |
A goldfish is a good candidate to test the mechanics of how the system works but could you imagine this system being applied to fish with half a brain? A large pet cichlid like amanaguense, an oscar, or even a grouper could soon learn how the machine works and quickly make use of it to follow its owner around the house.
Using the contrast of the fish with the bottom of the fish tank, its position is determined and used to send commands to the Arduino computer control board to move the car into that direction.
'Our pet fish have always been limited to their water holding area known as 'the fish tank', the firm said.
'In an attempt to liberate fish all over the world, the first self driving car for fish has been developed.
'Up until now driving vehicles has been limited to mankind only (excluding a handful of autonomous vehicles driven by computers), but now your pet fish can also put the pedal to the metal.'
de Wolf said the project was still only at the prototype stage, and is set to be improved before being launched as a Kickstarter project.
'Hopefully this invention will encourage more development in enhanced pet mobility, so pet animals can travel the world more freely.'
The team admit they are not sure how much the fish knows about its newfound ability.
'We are still not sure if the fish really has any idea of what it is doing for now,' said de Wolf.
'After letting it drive a little while we always put it back in it's normal aquarium with plants and filters to not stress it out too much.'
[Via Engadget - Via The Verge -Via]
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