What happens if they get lost in the cracks or fall down a droooff? Linda On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 1:33 PM Lee H. Skinner <skin...@thuntek.net> wrote:
> Here is an interesting story on robotic bugs: > > https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220303191454.htm > > > "... researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created tiny > bug-inspired robots that can carry out tasks in hard-to-reach spaces and > inhospitable environments. > > These robots could be used to access confined areas for imaging or > environmental evaluation, take water samples, or perform structural > evaluations,” said Junfeng Gao, who led the work as a PhD student in > industrial engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering. “Anywhere > you want to access confined places—where a bug could go but a person > could not—these machines could be useful.” > > > Now, what if we could put a bunch of them into a passage's breakdown > terminus into different cracks, give them a compass orientation as to > the passage's probable continuation, then let them go into the many > holes between the rocks. These bugs, about the size of a cave cricket, > would then explore and take images along the way (they would have to > have a light source), and return by the same route they took. > > > Lee Skinner > > > BTW, is the below image familiar to you? 😁 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sandia Grotto of the National Speleological Society" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > sandia-grotto-of-the-national-speleological-society+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sandia-grotto-of-the-national-speleological-society/dbb3cbbc-74d3-3e86-c89c-a56ff6893104%40thuntek.net > . >
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