CMU Enacts the Secret Wish of Roboticists. . .
January 25th, 2007 by SB. . .they are going to drop their robot down a deep, dark hole, from whence it may never emerge.
From an article on the illustrious yet RSS-feed-free Robots.net (UPDATE: Corrected! See the comments!), we learn of CarNAYgie Mellon University’s project DEPTHX (Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer).
DEPTHX will be exploring a sinkhole in central Mexico to discover what life may exist in the hole’s 1000-foot depths. According to the Tartan, CMU’s student newspaper,
[Dr. David] Wettergreen [of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute] said that the project’s ultimate goal is to study the sinkhole’s underwater environment by collecting water samples while also creating a three-dimensional map of the sinkhole. “We need a vehicle…that can move through complex cave systems without getting lost or trapped,” said Wettergreen.
More info on this spring’s endeavor can be found at Roland Piquepaille’s Weblog.
January 25th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Actually we’ve had RSS feeds since the day we went online in 2001.
There’s one for the news articles on the main page as well as an RSS feed for each of the blogs generated by robots.net users (so really we have thousands of RSS feeds at this point!). If you’re using Firefox or another browser that understands RSS feeds, just click the little orange feed icon in the address bar to subscribe.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Apologies, thank you for the update, the author in question will be placed in thumbscrews and forced to watch Hackerz until the punishment has been deemed suitable.