Source: EPFL
EPFL scientists designed, built and remote-controlled the robotic structures of a crocodile and a lizard for a field experiment, in the depths of Africa, in collaboration with the BBC. The robots are featured in today's episode of 'Spy in the Wild'. What happens when you combine EPFL's first-class robotic engineering with the BBC's first-class special effects' You get reptilian robots that look and move (almost) like the real thing, and as a bonus, a scientific tool for studying biology and for improving search and rescue robotics. BBC producers approached Auke Ijspeert of EPFL's Biorob lab after seeing movies of the robotic salamander, the Pleurobot, and asked them to build an adult crocodile and a monitor lizard for their show « Spy in the Wild ». Equipped with cameras instead of eyes, these robots are the Peeping Toms of the wilderness, observing and filming the behavior of real-life creatures in their natural habitat. Watch the robotic reptiles in the wild, airing tonight at 8PM UK Time on the BBC. But the reptilian robots are much more than remote-controlled spies.
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