Previous cute experiments show dogs and rats operating customized cars. Indeed, the goldfish were able to explore the terrestrial environment, all while avoiding dead-ends and correcting inaccuracies. The fish were tasked to “drive” the vehicle towards a visual target in the terrestrial environment, which was observable through the walls of the tank. If you want to build your own, they even published detailed instructions. And far from being a fishy Ferrari, the FOV jerkily travels at speeds of just over 1.5 km/h. The researchers trained six goldfish to drive, albeit one at a time – which means no FOV in the HOV. The scientists then upped the ante by changing the start position, adding decoy targets in different colours and moving the pink target around, which the goldfish kept driving towards to get their tasty treat. “The fish improved in terms of the total number of food pellet rewards during the session and the direct routes to the target.” “The fish became progressively more proficient on the task and by the last session exhibited control of the FOV and a high level of success,” the study reported. J5BkuGlZ34Īfter becoming accustomed to their new ride and environment, the fish eventually learned to navigate towards a pink target in a three-by-four metre room, which would earn them a food pellet reward. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement ( ). I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. “In this way, the vehicle's reaction to the fish's position allowed the fish to drive.”

“The vehicle was designed to detect the fish's position in the water tank and react by activating the wheels such that the vehicle moved in the specific direction according to the fish's position,” the researchers from the university’s life sciences, biomedical engineering, computer science and neuroscience departments explained. Their Fish Operated Vehicle, or FOV for short, consists of a plexiglass water tank outfitted with four motorized wheels as well as a camera to track the fishes’ movement, a computer, and LIDAR technology to detect the FOV’s location. “Overall, this study suggests that fish can learn to control a vehicle and use simple navigation strategies to successfully perform a task,” the researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev wrote in a paper published this month in the journal Behavioural Brain Research. A team of scientists in Israel built a “Fish Operated Vehicle” and taught six goldfish to drive on land.

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