{"id":15254,"date":"2011-01-21T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=15254"},"modified":"2011-01-21T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:54:01","slug":"there-will-be-robots-professor-malcolm-macivers-incredible-robot-ghost-knifefish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/there-will-be-robots-professor-malcolm-macivers-incredible-robot-ghost-knifefish\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be Robots: Professor Malcolm MacIver&#8217;s Incredible Robot Ghost Knifefish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18894865?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18894865\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Incredible Robot Fish<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/northwestern\" class=\"external external_icon\">Northwestern News<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The black ghost knifefish, which works at night in rivers of the Amazon basin, hunts for prey using a weak electric field around its entire body and moves both forward and backward using a ribbon-like fin on the underside of its body.<\/p>\n<p>MacIver, a robotics expert who served as a scientific consultant for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tron: Legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and is science advisor for the television series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Caprica,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has studied the knifefish for years. Working with Neelesh Patankar, associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of the paper, he has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-01-robotic-ghost-knifefish-born-video.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> created mechanical models of the fish in hopes of better understanding how the nervous system sends messages throughout the body to make it move<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-01-robotic-ghost-knifefish-born-video.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ScreenShot276.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"A fake fish in hand...\" width=\"576\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ScreenShot276.png 576w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ScreenShot276-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incredible Robot Fish from Northwestern News on Vimeo. The black ghost knifefish, which works at night in rivers of the Amazon basin, hunts for prey using a weak electric field around its entire body and moves both forward and backward using a ribbon-like fin on the underside of its body. MacIver, a robotics expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[3807,3745,3806,3808,1722,1975],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","category-technology","tag-biomimicry","tag-fish","tag-knifefish","tag-malcolm-maciver","tag-science-it-works-bitches","tag-there-will-be-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15256,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions\/15256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}