Cool Innovation #0028. Who said goldfish are dumb? Meet Walter.

This fish can decide where to go controlling its own fish tank. As it changes its position relative to the middle of the tank, so does the speed and direction of a robot.

The invention was made by a group of friends for Build18, annual engineering festival organized by Carnegie Mellon University. “We were sitting around one day trying to think of project ideas when we looked at the Fish in our Fraternity house, Walter, and decided it would be awesome if he could hang out with us! From there, coming up with a design was pretty simple,”

They built the robot in three days, but are planning to make an improved version with higher grade materials provided by Intel.

Fish controlling robots… What could go wrong, right?

Wanna get more cool and funny stuff? Join our Cool Innovation community. It´s free. And it´s fun.

Cool Innovation is the source for cool, catchy innovation for Agencies, Brands, Start Ups, Academia and other innovation-obsessed guys.