Round Island Lighthouse, Straits Of Mackinac, Michigan, USA (Lakes Huron & Michigan)

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

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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]