Engineered robot interacts with live fish
via kurzweilai:
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots — a step toward using autonomous robots in an open environment to protect endangered animals and control pest species. […]
[read more @kurzweilai & @iop] [paper] [image credit: G Polverino et al./Bioinspiration & Biomimetics]
Il maestro della trottola!!
Ruup Students of Estonian Academy of Arts
“Gigantic wooden megaphones” for the forest inhabit a clearing in Estonia's Pähni Nature Centre. They are part of an acoustic installation meant to amplify the sounds of the landscape, serve as outdoor classrooms or just provide shelter to a weary hiker.
Images Tõnu Tunnel
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
— Lao Tzu (via flowgently)
Pont du Gard in Nimes, 1st century AD.
Black Panther by © shaazjungphotography