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Robot helps sophisticated tracking white sharks

OSLO (Reuters) - The scientists used a robot (robot) to track white sharks giant in the Pacific Ocean as part of their efforts to understand the movements of this kind of predatory fish.The robot picks up from the top of which is similar to board surfing signals from fish fitted with tracking devices to swim in a depth of up to 330 meters Ocean then sends its coordinates to the researchers via satellite.Scientists do not have the clear vision of the place of white sharks in the ocean giant. And will give the new robot to see a close on the movements of those fish that image films such as "Jaws."Said Barbara Block Professor of Marine Sciences at Stanford University in California and is responsible for the project, "We are now in the twenty-century atheist scientists and put superimposed on the surface of Mars., And we do not understand what is happening in the oceans."She told Reuters, saying, "We will send the robot to track sharks." In an experiment lasted for eight days enables the robot - built by Liquid Robotics Corporation, based in California, which is moving at less than normal walking speed - to monitor the movements of 19 shark at 200 sites.The robot can with a length of two meters and provider of the highest Solar panels also provide information on other sea creatures fitted with tracking devices such as tuna and salmon.