SAN DIEGO – Some dolphins used by a Navy to lane down mines will shortly remove their jobs to robots — though they’ll be reassigned, not retired.
Starting in 2017, 24 of a Navy’s 80 military-trained dolphins will be transposed by a 12-foot unmanned torpedo-shaped vehicle, according to UT San Diego (http://bit.ly/VbJkA0).
The troops pronounced a machines can do some of a same mine-hunting duties as a sea creatures. And they can be made quickly, distinct a 7 years it takes to sight a dolphin.
But a dolphins won’t be relieved of duty. They’ll be used along with sea lions for pier confidence and retrieving objects from a sea floor, a journal reported.
The Navy’s $28 million marine-mammal module dates behind to a late 1950s and once enclosed torpedo whales and sharks.
Read full article: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/beware-torrent-sites-are-being-watched-20120907-25iuo.html
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