3/16/2006: Robot carp

Those Japanese, building their robots! This time it's a robotic CARP, whose job it will be to take pictures of seabeds with its nose-mounted camera.



It's comin' right for us!

I would need at least a gallon of tarter sauce

Is this form actually functional, or is it just something for goofy fun while doing science?

Finally the low maintenance fish I've been waiting for! Now I can build the pond I have always wanted

Why is everything that comes out of Japan so creepy?

I think instead of Carp they mean Coy

Oh, boi...!

yeah koi coy you got the jist

It's claimed to observe sea-bed resources (sushi?) and bottom feeders.
I should think it would scare the crap out of the bottom feeders.

it will blend in well with the surrounding balloons and clowns that live at the bottom of the sea.

No live link to the camera?

Freakin' hilarious, and whether or not to take it seriously is probably your own opinion.

My own would be that it is probably fully functional AND "Super Happy Mega-Fun"!

I think koi are a type of carp.

Welcome to the Cellar, Susan.
I think your right about koi.

Not just type; koi literally is carp.

you just know some bubba is thinkin "da-yamn, ah'm unna try an noodle me that fellar"

Types of carp

Genus Abramis
Carp bream (Abramis brama)
Genus Aristichthys:
Bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis)
Genus Barbodes:
Carnatic carp (Barbodes carnaticus)
Genus Carassius:
Crucian carp (Carassius carassius )
Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio)
Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Genus Cirrhinus:
Chinese mud carp (Cirrhinus chinensis)
Deccan white carp (Cirrhinus fulungee)
Hora white carp (Cirrhinus macrops)
Small scale mud carp (Cirrhinus microlepis)
Mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella)
Genus Ctenopharyngodon:
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus)
Genus Culter:
Predatory carp (Culter erythropterus)
Genus Cyprinus:
Common carp, Koi (Cyprinus carpio)
Genus Epalzeorhynchos:
Red-tailed black shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor)
Red-finned black shark or Rainbow shark (Epalzeorhynchos frenatus)
Genus Henicorhynchus:
Siamese mud carp (Henicorhynchus siamensis)
Genus Hypophthalmichthys:
Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
Genus Labeo:
African carp (Labeo coubie)
Fringed-lipped peninsula carp (Labeo fimbriatus)
Pigmouth carp (Labeo kontius)
Genus Mylopharyngodon:
Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)

anyone seen that Cheech Maranis film (sp?) still smoking? (possibly) where he is talking to the fish...imagine how freaked you'd be if you were sitting there having a fly toke, or even just a sandwich, by the river bank and that thing popped up in front of you.

i want one though...not sure why...i just do...

The guy that built this Robo-carp built another IOtD.http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=9322

This site http://www.newscientist.com/blog/tec...shy-robot.html has the story and film links on Robo-carp.

YThat carp better watch out!

"Where can I get some damn bait?"
I bet they'd be good smoked. I tried smoking a salmon one time... burnt up three Bic lighters and never DID get a decent toke. sheesh...

the japanesse will find some way to use it for "up-skirt" websites

When will some American entrepreneur modify this design to come up with a robotic muskie?

Hang on!

More on Japanese Robot ideas are here:
http://www.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/r...roject_01.html

I think the Guide Robot is a bit homely looking though!

This site from Honda is really neat with lots of videos to view http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/#SlideFrame_1

Especially amusing was "Greeting Passers By" and "The Press Conference" is a pretty good overviewof what Asimo can do. I also found the "Asimo Joins Science Class" good, goes to show why the Japanese are way ahead of our kids in the USA in science.

The streaming seems slow so you may want to pause until it mostly is loaded and then play.