Minesweeping turtle bots learn to crawl

• Autores: Matt Reynolds
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3127, 2017, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When it comes to detecting landmines, being slow is an advantage. Swarms of robotic sea turtles teaching themselves to crawl in the Arizona desert could one day be used to help clear landmines in war zone. The military already has minesweeping robots, but their bulk makes them costly and difficult to deploy--something the turtle bats could help resolve. The robotic turtles, which are about the size of a small drone, are laser-cut from two sheets of cardboard before being folded together origami-style and fitted with an inexpensive computer chip and motors that move their fins.