Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University have created snowmobile like robots, called SnoMotes, to gather scientific ground data on the melting polar glaciers, sea ice and ice caps of the arctic. "Having this potential for the robots to crawl around and make all the measurements for us, in this relatively harsh terrain of crevassed glaciers filled with lakes that are draining … is really a neat opportunity," said Matt Heavner, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau and SnoMote project collaborator. Isn't this exactly the type of job that robots should be doing for us? Well this and vacuuming our floors!
CBC Story here.
CBC Story here.
