Bloodhound robot stays on the scent

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2923, 2013, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There have been many attempts to give robots a sense of smell, from sensors that work like electronic noses to living biological tissue that responds to certain chemicals in the air. But what's been missing is a way for the robot itself to close in on a chemical plume as fast as possible. Now engineer Tien-Fu Lu at the University of Adelaide in Australia has an answer: mimic the way insects do it. He has written a software routine that allows a robot to seek a hydrogen sulphide source in a set of offices.