Robots for you

2000_MeteoriteSearch.jpgCarnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has a slideshow of robots made by its Field Robotics Center. Robots!

Pictured is a winterized version of its Nomad rover, designed to search for and classify meteorites in Antarctica.

Robots at the FRC [CMU]


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#1 posted by Anonymous , October 31, 2008 7:48 AM

Does 'winterized' mean 'covered in snow'?

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That looks like something off the Concept Ships sci-fi art blog. Very cool.

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I think 'winterized' means 'prepared for severe cold weather.' I took it to mean that the standard Nomad couldn't handle the arctic temperature and precipitation, but the winterized version can.

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