Amid growing interest and concern for dolphins that spend their lives in a tank, an unusual'dolphin' in the United States is drawing attention.



On the 15th local time, foreign media including Reuters reported that Edge Innovation, an engineering company based in California, USA, introduced a special dolphin that could end the era of zoo breeding.




These dolphins can swim freely in the pool, approach people, splash and play with water, but they are not really live dolphins.

It is a so-called'robot dolphin' that uses medical grade silicone to make skin and learn behavior patterns using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.




Edge Innovation has been creating'animal-like robots' used in Hollywood movie shoots.By taking this technology to the next level, it has succeeded in creating a robotic dolphin that cannot be easily distinguished from a real dolphin.

The scale of the entertainment industry using dolphins, such as dolphin shows and dolphin experiences, is growing, but in order to sustain this, the goal was to improve the reality that more than 3,000 dolphins around the world must live in narrow tanks.



Walt Conti representatives edge innovation is "dolphin industrial scale, like the gun Dolphins amounting to billions of dollars, and means more they want to know about the dolphins" ramyeonseodo,

wanted to "present a better way than to imprison and exploitation of live animals "

He explained.




In fact, robotic dolphins can take over all the tasks of zoo dolphins, such as swimming with zookeepers, learning stunts and showing them to spectators.

The zookeepers who swam close to the robot dolphin were surprised by saying, "I knew that it was a fake, but for a moment I mistaken it for a real dolphin."



In addition, since AI technology can learn the movements and behaviors of real dolphins and follow them in the same way, it is expected to be used as educational materials to help learn about marine life.




"In the future, raising live dolphins in zoos will disappear. Furthermore, we can swim with killer whales and even marine creatures that lived in the Jurassic Period," Conti said, "there will be no more living dolphins in zoos." There will also come."



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(Source ='Geo AR Games' YouTube,'NTV Houston' YouTube)