Robots are being dressed up like animals in order to blend in with wildlife and help research their real-life counterparts in nature. There are robotic birds, bees, and lizards. RobotNext has many articles on robots that are modeled on nature. This is a slightly different take in that the robots are imitating nature in order to study the animals.
Credit: Popular Science, Illustrations by Bradley R. Hughes
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science
Popular Mechanics, NY
To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details of habitats that were never …
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science – Popular Mechanics
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:45:53 GMT