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Linux-Based Robot To Explore The Forest

Posted by timothy on from the sasquatch-is-running-scared dept.

crashoverride025 contributes this link to a BBC story about Treebot, "A Linux-based mobile robot equipped with a webcam and sensors swings into action to help monitor forests." Despite the Tarzan reference, it looks like this robot moves along a cable, rather than swinging from place to place.

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  1. Oh, just great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now the forests are going to be polluted with non-indigenous directory trees!

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    1. Re:Oh, just great... by beacher · · Score: 1, Funny

      It'll use Banyan vines to communicate too... -B

  2. The lighter side of forest fires... by odano · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope they have a good HSF, lest it overheat and start a forest fire.

  3. Apparently this is their third attempt by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 1, Funny
    • One Bot
    • Two Bot
    • ???
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  4. If a treebot falls in the forest... by JamesP · · Score: 0, Funny

    does it throw an exception???

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  5. So the questions will be answered by dcw3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally, we'll find out...

    * Do bears shit in the woods?
    * If a tree falls and nobody's there to hear it, does it make a sound?
    * Is the Pope Catholic...

    Oh well, maybe 2 out of 3.

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  6. Yes but. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What happens if the kernel inside of it panics. I mean there are a lot of hazards in a jungle. It would be a lot better to use a specialised os than Linux. You cant just press a button to reboot it when its in the middle of nowhere. Linux is okay when its sitting on a rack serving up web pages or doing general workstation tasks, but when your in the forest, who knows what could happen.

  7. stealth by Pompatus · · Score: 3, Funny

    helps by being stealthy enough to travel through the forest canopy along specially-constructed cabling

    I suppose a piece of metal crashing through tree branches hanging from a cable is more stealthy than, say a jackhammer. Wouldn't it be more quiet if many sensors were placed about the forest and used wifi to connect and send information? They could even still run linux to do so and get mentioned on slashdot!

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    1. Re:stealth by Demodian · · Score: 2, Funny

      So basically, you are saying it can't see the forest for the trees...

  8. Re:If a treebot falls... by michaelhood · · Score: 1, Funny

    Am I the only one who would be absolutely FREAKED OUT if I were camping, and saw in the distance some faint shiny object hovering above us?

  9. Cannibal Holocaust 2.. by Channard · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. featuring web cam footage of the tragic demise of a team of SCO lawyers who went into the woods to impound the robot due to the makers not paying the Linux license fees for it, only to be eaten by a tribe of hithertoe unknown Cannibalistic Californian Forest Dwellers.