This robotic fish cost $30,000 to create, and the only thing it does is … check how polluted the water in the ocean is? Heck, I could do that for $30,000. What the heck are scientist thinking these days.
The 1.5 meter long robotic fish each requires about $30,000 to make. Their purpose is to head out into the open water, take in data about water pollutants, return to a charging station about every 8 hours and while charging, submit data about water quality.
The issues with this first batch of fish is pretty clear – they’re way too expensive to be made in numbers big enough to be very helpful; their charge lasts just 8 hours so they aren’t able to have a very large range away from their charging stations; they run a pretty good risk of getting a bite taken out of them.
And as you can tell from this quote the robot fish is about as useless as a paddle in the middle of the ocean seeing how it needs to recharge and such. They should have made it solar power.
Via: YT
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