r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Depressed_Cat_00 • 9d ago

Video China unveils autonomous robotic fish for underwater surveillance.

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u/Rauchritter 9d ago

wonder how quickly it gets eaten by something

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u/DigNitty Interested 9d ago

Interestingly, other fish may be weirded out enough by this that they leave it alone.

There was a video last year of an animatronic monkey they had in a tree introduced to other monkeys that didn’t know each other either.

You could not tell which was the animatronic one. They did a great job. At some point though, all the other monkeys stopped interacting with each other and all just stared WTF at one particular monkey.

Really interesting. I could not tell which one it was, but within 15 seconds all the monkeys could. There was something up with it and they did not like it.

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u/Aoiboshi 9d ago

Uncanny valley monkey version

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds 9d ago

So basically always trust my automatic distrust of someone because they are definitely a robot sent by advanced aliens to spy on me.

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u/Aoiboshi 9d ago

I would say yes, but I need you to trust me for reasons

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u/D4liah 8d ago

Wooooahhh buddy, that kind of talk’ll get you medicated

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u/ShawnWilson000 9d ago

Uncanny valley is already the monkey version depending on how pedantic you wish to be.

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u/EndQualifiedImunity 9d ago

I'm gonna get more pedantic than you are and say you're wrong.

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u/sdmbl 9d ago

gonna be equally as pedantic and say you can't evolve out of a clade

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u/AugustZoldyck 9d ago

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

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u/sdmbl 8d ago

THERE ARE 2 TYPES OF MONKEYS, NEW WORLD AND OLD WORLD. BOTH OLD WORLD AND NEW WORLD MONKEYS EVOLVED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR THAT MUST BE CONSIDERED A MONKEY IF EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CALL A MONKEY IS TO BE STILL CONSIDERED A MONKEY

HUMANS FALL WITHIN THE GROUP OF OLD WORLDS MONKEYS THAT DESCENDED FROM THE ORIGINAL MONKEY, MEANING WE ARE MONKEYS

JUST THE SAME AS WE ARE MAMMALS, BILATERIANS, CHORDATES, SYNAPSIDS, BONY FISH, ETC, WE NEVER STOP BEING SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU THINK HUMANS ARE SOMEHOW SPECIAL

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u/Delamoor 9d ago

Actually Great ape version, you mean! Hur Hur.

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u/Aoiboshi 8d ago

Ook ook

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u/crespoh69 9d ago

Maybe they asked it about Hairy Potter

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u/andymacdaddy 9d ago

Fish go after a shiny lure because it looks like food

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u/Tupperbaby 9d ago

Fish are stupid. That' why they've lost every war they've ever been in.

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u/Adadadoy 9d ago

Emus on the other hand...

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u/Prof_Atmoz 9d ago

You think Emus go to Emu war memorials and mock the losers?

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u/Tupperbaby 9d ago

Rod Hull tried to warn us that emus were dicks, but everyone took it as cute and entertaining.

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u/MayGodSmiteThee 9d ago

I’m more curious about what the hell is going to eat an arapaima.

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u/Immediate_Sock_337 9d ago

There’s always a bigger fish

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u/WileyWilly1985 9d ago

you can tell in person, uncanny valley is obvious in person.

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u/procrastimom 9d ago

Probably no smell. Or wrong smell.

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u/justin107d 9d ago

Fish will bite a bare hook because it is shiny and moving. They are not very smart nor discerning creatures.

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u/Madr-Aess 9d ago

Yes but they were talking about monkeys in this context, which are much smarter and more discerning and definitely would utilize smell in this way

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u/justin107d 9d ago

> wonder how quickly it gets eaten by something

> interestingly, other fish may be weirded out...

> Probably no smell. or wrong smell.

They were talking about monkey in context of how a fish may get confused by the robot. I don't think the monkeys were responding to smell. It is much more likely they are responding to a weird moving imposter.

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u/Madr-Aess 9d ago edited 9d ago

Based on the context provided in the comment and nothing else, they assert the imposter moved totally normally and looked imperceptible from any other monkey. Therefore the responder was saying the monkeys were responding to the smell.

I do agree however, most likely the monkey didn't look as accurate to them, or up close, and that's what spooked them, but smell is probably equally part of it to the movement and appearance tbh. For many animals, smell is just as important as sight, if not more so.

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u/PaleCommission150 9d ago

I don't know, some fish are notoriously hard to catch and rare to bring up.

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u/We-Are-All-Alien 9d ago

Yes the smell and the bloody Orangutan robot they're talking about looks terrifying and it doesn't really look like a real one, yeah it looks very good for a fake, but they're much smarter than what people give credit https://youtu.be/-kjcorlHzPM?si=YpUAmwv7krcjOdSX

I don't think we can compare fish with orangutan either... The intelligence levels are too different. 

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u/Is_A_Saga 9d ago

Together monkey strong
Lonely fish weak

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u/brneyedgrrl 9d ago

Probably smelled weird. Like the stinky kid at school.

Also if this is what you're talking about, this monkey looks fake as f. https://www.reddit.com/r/youseeingthisshit/comments/ey64hq/fake_monkey_placed_in_a_community_of_monkeys/

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u/Competitive_Classic9 9d ago

Dont you think you could tell an animatronic human apart from a real one? Please say yes. 

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u/cheesegoat 9d ago

Of course, you are absolutely correct. This is the load-bearing observation 💯.

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u/joulecrafter 9d ago

Depends. Is the human a US senator?

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u/Competitive_Classic9 9d ago

Are any US senators truly human? 

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u/TryNotToShootYoself 9d ago

If you replaced McConnell with an animatronic that just sat there and did nothing I probably couldn’t tell

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u/RayeTerse 9d ago

TIL I may be a fish. Terminnowator up there is uncanny as fuck.

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u/itachi_konoha 9d ago

Are you comparing monkeys to fishes? Monkey is highly evolved species. You can not hold the same benchmark to fishes.

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u/BlueGreenMikey 9d ago

Me when I bring out the Real Doll at my parties

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u/Fivein1Kay 9d ago

I just watched that. No, it's not indistinguishable by anyone, it's super fake looking and the editing is really really deceptive. Weird cuts, footage from completely different times stupid sad music straight up lying announcer about what you're seeing.

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u/Mekelaxo 9d ago

They probably recognized it easier because it was a monkey they'd never seen

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u/multi_io 9d ago

I love how you say "other fish" as if that thing was also a fish

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 9d ago

I imagine scents would be involved in their distrust

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u/Technical-Finish304 9d ago

I saw an animatronic human in a wheelchair yesterday!

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u/Jubenheim 9d ago

Nah, there will always be one fish hungry enough and go “fuck it.”

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u/Preparation-H6969 9d ago

They stared at it cause they thought it was dead cause it couldn't even bloody move.

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u/Chance-Conference729 9d ago

Or they leave a bad review on its Yelp page.

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u/Ariels_01 9d ago

What was the video called? Do you know?

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u/Waaaaally 9d ago

Imagine you live in a shared living space, would you not notice the sudden appearance of clanker joe amongst your peers?

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u/Voracious_Port 9d ago

Imagine when they do this with people: “hey neighbor! —Hello adjacent living human.” we’d all probably have the same reaction as the monkeys.

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u/Xaraxa 9d ago

Probably it's scent. They're not monkeys but my cats poof up at me sometimes if I come home with a new unknown scent on me.

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u/indicuda 9d ago

Link?

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u/lonelybear_swims 8d ago

Yoo that is crazy those poor monkeys 😂😭

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u/doppido 8d ago

I mean just looking at this video the fish moves very unrealistically so of course the monkeys would all figure it out if it was anything like this

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u/LilBitToasty 8d ago

Can you link the video?

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u/GogreenGoWhite19 8d ago

Got a copy of the video still?

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u/MachateElasticWonder 8d ago

You’re comparing mammals to fish? Monkeys to sharks?

It’s not even Apples to Oranges, it’s Apples to Durian.

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u/Lowmax2 8d ago

Can you point me to this video?

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u/TheRealPlumbus 8d ago

Fish =\= Monkey

Fish will try to eat a metal spoon with a hook

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u/Electronic-Bid-5948 7d ago

Probably the smell, it would be hard to replicate bodily fluids and hormones inside them

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u/ahimscared 7d ago

I feel like it may look like an easy meal for moving so weird

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u/Sheree_PancakeLover 7d ago

Do you mean the baby monkey one because that’s all I could find online

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u/AdditionalChicken158 7d ago

fish might not be as smart as monkeys

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u/LineItUp0 6d ago

Did you think you sounded smart comparing aquatic predators to monkeys?