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Polar Robots to Explore the Arctic
Roland Piquepaille writes "It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially designed robots called SnoMotes developed by U.S. researchers. 'The SnoMotes work as a team, autonomously collaborating among themselves to cover all the necessary ground to gather assigned scientific measurements.' More importantly, a SnoMote is an 'expendable rover that wouldn't break a research team's bank if it were lost during an experiment,' according to the lead researcher." Reader coondoggie adds a link to another story on these robots at Network World.
'cause like, polar robots have something better to explore than like the *poles* ?
--Q
I, for one, welcome our bi-polar robot overlords.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
...Cartesian robots are angry about being passed over for these jobs without even being considered.
The laws of probability forbid it!