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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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  2. 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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  3. 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...

  4. 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.