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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. Not To Rain On Anyone's Parade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But this has actually been done before according to a Yahoo! News article from early this year. And yes, this is actually a different project, not the same one from the article.