Linux-Based Robot To Explore The Forest

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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[Rosco P. Coltrane]

probes sent to mars should've been run by linux

Are you kidding? what do you think they run, Windows?

Linux is great, but nowhere near the level of certification required for software that runs on space probes. The latter, as well as software running on airplane computers, space shuttles, etc ... are so strictly checked that many parts of them are proven mathematically, with great care, at great expenses.

Just propose NASA or ESA to power their stuff with Linux and they'll probably look at you with a thin smile and the kind of condescending look one makes while shooing a slightly annoying retarded child.