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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. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

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

  2. That comment was originally posted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    here.