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Antarctic Robots Exceed Expectations.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the number-five-is-very-cold dept.

scrondle writes "Robots deployed by the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory outperformed expectations. Scientists involved in the research believe they may be poised to do the first robotic traversal of Antarctica."

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  1. Re:Interesting story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You obviously live in a temperate zone.
    Antartica is a little more than snow and David Attenborrough. Antartica is one of the few extremes left on this planet.
    It's very hard for life to exist there all year round, and having robots that can run successfully there isn't quite as exciting as a rover wheeling it's way around the surface of Titan, but it has a HELL of a lot more relevance and will be able to tell a heck of a lot more about our own planet.