Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri, of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real... Designing The Pied Piper Of Fish IRA FLATOW, HOST: ...

STERLING — There are fish at North Sterling State Park. That was the message Park Manager David Piper shared at a Rotary Club meeting on Wednesday, when he discussed the fish kill that occurred last ...

The "natives" at Rio Indio, on the central Caribbean slope of Panama, trap the river fish Brycon chagrensis using leaves of Piper auritum as bait in feeders. The people use this technique because the ...

Maurizio Porfiri wants to build robots that can herd fish like sheepdogs. Sound fishy? He’s farther along than you might expect. A few years ago, Porfiri, a mechanical engineer at the Polytechnic ...

Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri, of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he's ...

Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri wants to build robots that can herd fish like sheepdogs. Sound fishy? He’s farther along than you might expect. A few years ago, Porfiri, a mechanical engineer at ...