Science News Roundup: Like a fish out of water? Israeli team trains goldfish to drive

Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Like a fish out of water? Israeli team trains goldfish to drive Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive. The team at Ben-Gurion University developed an FOV - a fish-operated vehicle.

Science News Roundup: Like a fish out of water? Israeli team trains goldfish to drive
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Following is a summary of current science news briefs.

Like a fish out of water? Israeli team trains goldfish to drive

Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive. The team at Ben-Gurion University developed an FOV - a fish-operated vehicle. The robotic car is fitted with lidar, a remote sensing technology that uses pulsed laser light to collect data on the vehicle's ground location and the fish's whereabouts inside a mounted water tank.

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