Brief History of Animal Observation Using Robots

Feel like adding a dose of cute to your Sunday? Check out this Yahoo! article that briefly covers the history of animal study using robots. It links to several very interesting studies carried out using various robotic means.

The serious part: a study looking into new ways to conduct scientific observations of penguins and seals in the wild — minimizing the disturbance caused by human observers. The adorable part: basically a little remote-controlled vehicle adorned with what looks like a baby-penguin plush toy.

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