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Robotic Mine Exploration

Posted by timothy on from the way-down-deep dept.

Punty writes "CMU has yet again pushed the envelope of robotic technology. After the Quecreek mine incident, technology experts made a quick move to come up with solutions to mine mapping. Well, CMU has made major progress thanks to Red Wittaker, who created the Mobile Robotics Development Course with such goals in mind. It is especially interesting to see that it is the students doing most of the work in such a complex project. The full story, along with links to the "Groundhog" and "Nomad" projects can be found here. . ."

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  1. If... by Pall+Agamemnides · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you were to get Marcel Marceau to swallow the video-equipped capsules described in this recent /. article, would that be considered "robotic mime exploration"?

  2. Woah. Bad analogy: by twiztidlojik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "When are you really going to be ready?" he adds, encouragingly. "You know, when they launch the shuttle, it's never ready. It always has dozens of flaws they know about. They launch anyway."

    WTF!?

    Dude, get a better comparison :X

    That being said, this will be really neat if the robots become cheap. Imagine what could be done in the world of urban exploration with this kind of technology!

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