Robotic fish , developed by a team of European scientists from universities across the continent , today were introduced into their ( un)natural home ground , at the northern Spanish port Gijon .
The Shoal Consortium , as it is call , a European Commission - fund group from academe and byplay that has develop these underwater robots , consist BMT Group , a engineering consultancy , and Thales Safare , a unit of Europe ’s tumid defence electronics group , which was responsible for the communicating engineering , among other donnish institutions .
The fish measure 5 feet in distance and cost the equivalent of $ 31,500 . After tests this week , the squad will make modification to the example and hopefully move forward to commercial-grade production , which is projected to bestow down the cost - per - Pisces the Fishes .
Their developer hope the new technology will pull buyersfrom larboard authorities , water company , marine museum and the corresponding . The Pisces would be of particular use in large - weighing machine environmental disaster like oil colour spills , as they cut down the prison term it takes to detect pollutants from week to bare irregular .
Luke Speller , a scientist at BMT Group who led the project , explain that the fish are fitted with chemical sensors that permit tangible - time , in situ analysis . Data is transmitted from the fish directly back to a shoring post standing by .
Among other advance features , the fish have the power to communicate with one another , swim independently , single-valued function where they are and determine how and to return to base , when their eight - hour batter - life is running low . [ Reuters , BBC News ]
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