Resumen de Bloodhound robot stays on the scent
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.
