Need To Track A Submarine? A Harbor Seal Can Show You How
Harbor seals use sensors in their whiskers to help discern predator from prey. It's all about the way the water whirls, say scientists who are now training computers to be better trackers, too.
by Joe Palca
Aug 28, 2018
1 minute
Using lessons learned from harbor seals and artificial intelligence, engineers in California may be on to a new way to track enemy submarines.
The idea started with published in 2001 on the seals.
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