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November 25, 2004

'Swarm-bots' offer sniff of the future

Andy Russell does not object to sniffer dogs. "They find leaks in oil pipelines, they find people, they detect drugs and explosives. Obviously they're very important," he says. But they do have weaknesses. They get hungry. They get bored. And if sent into a room filled with poisonous gas, they die. Clearly, there is room for improvement.

On Russell's desk in the engineering department at Monash university, Melbourne, Australia, is a prototype of what he hopes will one day provide a less vulnerable alternative. It doesn't look much. Its body is a 10cm diameter disc and instead of legs, it has small wheels. But this robot can lay scent trails, and can follow them.

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Posted by thinkingmachine at November 25, 2004 07:03 PM

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