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Kiwi's robot dolphin could help Chinese aquariums
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English - May 10, 2020 20:56 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As Chinese zoos and aquariums grapple with new bans on wildlife trade, a New Zealand tech entrepeneur is seeing unexpected interest in her latest project.
Melanie Langlotz has helped build a life-sized robot dolphin that looks and swims just like a real bottlenose and can echo-locate and react to human gestures.
It could end up plugging the gap for struggling Chinese zoos and aquariums.
Katie Todd explains.