It has been known for centuries that many fish swim in schools, with large groups moving in unison. But scientists have never fully known why, and have been unable to prove how this behaviour benefits them. Now, European researchers have used robotic fish to show it it is up to 13.5 per cent more efficient for fish to swim in a group than alone, allowing them to save energy. This had been the long-standing theory, but it had never been conclusively proven. European researchers used robotic fish to prove it is because they allow fish to save energy and up to 13.5 per cent more efficient than swimming alone Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB), the University of Konstanz, and Peking University, set about building a lifelike robot to test the hypothesis.

What is the meaning of life? This is a uniquely human characteristic – to ponder the meaning of life. I think the meaning of life is to maximise pattern existence. To exist is the meaning itself. What is the difference between right and wrong?

But that could soon change: Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting computer algorithm can identify and record from neurons in the living mouse brain with better accuracy and speed than a human experimenter. The new automated process eliminates the need for months of training and provides long-sought information about living cells' activities. Using this technique, scientists could classify the thousands of different types of cells in the brain, map how they connect to each other, and figure out how diseased cells differ from normal cells. The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Megabots' MK.111 robot now has a torso and a pair of Heavy Lifting Arms The arms can lift up to 2,500lbs total and the team tests them with a car MK.111 snags a car with its massive claws and lifts it 12ft in the air The team says, once the legs are attached it still stand 16 feet tall Megabots' MK.111 robot now has a torso and a pair of Heavy Lifting Arms Conspiracy theorists claim CERN has unleashed'hell on... How Nemo would REALLY get home: Researchers find baby reef... Meet Tiny, the smallest snowman in the world: Researchers... The Apple Watch 3 could be MUCH thinner: Patent hints that... Conspiracy theorists claim CERN has unleashed'hell on... How Nemo would REALLY get home: Researchers find baby reef... Meet Tiny, the smallest snowman in the world: Researchers... The Apple Watch 3 could be MUCH thinner: Patent hints that... The team uses four 50-foot long, one inch hoses to hook up Mk. Because the robot's legs have not been completed, its torso is propped up on what the Megabots team calls the'Tower of Death' (pictured) – a test platform that holds MK. 11 to its final height until its legs have been completed MK.

By: HQAnon / (AnonHQ) The evolution of humanoid robots is well into the concerning stage at this point. DARPA's latest incarnation of its Atlas robot is seen in the following video beginning to walk at a pace with a sense of balance equal to most humans. Strangely, toward the end of the video, it is being "abused" by its human handler, which begs the question if a true artificial intelligence is permitted to flourish in this robot, if it might strike back at some point. At the very least, this robot's demonstration of dexterity in the warehouse is likely to threaten humans economically as humans continue to be outsourced to machine labor at record levels. But it's the latest humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics that might further heighten the level of concern.