{"title":"The SlothBot: an ecologically inspired environmental monitoring robot","authors":"M. Egerstedt, J. Pauli","doi":"10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.EDENTATA-20-1.7.EN","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the low-energy lifestyle of the three-toed sloth (Bradypus sp.), the SlothBot is an energy-efficient, solar-powered robot designed to have a persistent presence in tree canopies. Organized around the novel robotics paradigm that surviving takes precedence over goal-driven actions, the SlothBot only moves when it absolutely has to. Since May 2020, it has been taking climate measurements in the treetops of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. We envision that, in the future, teams of SlothBots can be deployed in a rainforest canopy to collect data for field ecologists.","PeriodicalId":52080,"journal":{"name":"IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.EDENTATA-20-1.7.EN","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Inspired by the low-energy lifestyle of the three-toed sloth (Bradypus sp.), the SlothBot is an energy-efficient, solar-powered robot designed to have a persistent presence in tree canopies. Organized around the novel robotics paradigm that surviving takes precedence over goal-driven actions, the SlothBot only moves when it absolutely has to. Since May 2020, it has been taking climate measurements in the treetops of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. We envision that, in the future, teams of SlothBots can be deployed in a rainforest canopy to collect data for field ecologists.
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