We talked about how robots might see us humans off right before we breathe our last, in addition to helping us maintain our fitness by being our jogging buddy, but how about robots interacting with animals instead. In particular, we are talking about robot fish here, where a painted robot fish complete with a smiley face (not that the fish would care, I believe) clearly gained the approval of its tank-mates when placed within. It seemed that scientists' experiments with it attracted both male and female zebrafish through the movements of its mechanically operated tail.
Ubergizmo, Robot fish jives with tank-mates and has them fooled
