Roboshark!

Roboshark, a robotic shark used to film real sharks for a BBC documentary will soon be the main attraction at a giant robotic aquarium in Birmingham, England, set to open in 2006.  Visitors will be able to explore the aquarium, which also includes robotic tuna and stingrays, in mini submarine pods.  Best of all, Roboshark is programed to enjoy a spot of human hunting, which could prove interesting as the facility will also be used to train scuba divers.  This sounds like the beginning of a bad sci-fi movie to us.

[JK @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Roboshark runs Mac OS X because windows sucks and so do creative and rio mp3 players.

[Keith Tomlinson @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Sorry but this is nothing new. As soon as the series finished on the BBC the shark was placed into a tank at the National Maritime Cneter in Plymouth and has been there ever since. Obviously it's moving to Birmingham.

[Joey Geraci @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

really intelligent jk

[Richard @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

C'mon laser beams...
It'll be terrorizing Brits and blinding pilots in no time!

[B @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Frickin robot sharks with frickin laser beams on thier frickin heads?

[josh @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

All the aquarium needs now are a bunch of Richard Simmons robots that shoot bees out of their mouths and they could rule the world.

[Brett Favray @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Candygram

[Maikeru @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Hopefully they won't use this robotic shark to film a "Jaws" remake.

[ikkedus @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Would be nice to put those in a swimmingpool (those fancy ones with palmtrees and so)

[Duane Moody @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

If we can get Wrench Farm's Robot Fonze, does this mean he can jump the shark?

[travis phillips @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

kind of scary... i'm a scuba diver and try not to dive near any sharks.

[Julian Brown @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Any scuba diver who "tries not to dive near sharks" has no idea what he is missing. Shark attacks on divers are more rare than lightning strikes on pedestrians!

[Harvey Keck @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Perhaps, given the continuing degradation of our environment, it's the first step in making the android animals that Philip K. Dick was writing about in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

[Blademonkey @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

'Any scuba diver who "tries not to dive near sharks" has no idea what he is missing. Shark attacks on divers are more rare than lightning strikes on pedestrians!'
They are rare because of cautious divers who try not to dive near sharks. But feel free to show us your . . . 'courageous' behavior by filming this mistake uh I mean event.

[Julian Brown @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

'They are rare because of cautious divers who try not to dive near sharks.'
Not so - they are rare because divers are not shark food. Most shark attacks are on swimmers or surfers on the surface - the belief is that they are mistaken for seals in distress. Even then sharks do not seem to consume people but to bite and release, presumably because people do not taste like food.

[Moshack @ Dec 19th 2005 2:13AM]

Bite and release? Oh that makes everything alright! And divers don`t spend anytime on the surface swimming? What do they do? Jump out the water into the boat like a dolphin? There are a lot of things we "can" do and get away with. But it takes a wise person to know when to draw the line. Diving with sharks is stupid if it is not part of your work in some way. Ever heard of a rouge shark? starving and confused sharks? Retarded Sharks? We can eat whale dung but we don`t do it. Oh well, to each his or her own. But no other living things risk their lives on purpose just for a thrill. Why, because it makes no sense.