Flying Robot Penguins!
Feb 1st, 2010, 5:32 pm
Because earthbound, organic penguins weren’t good enough.
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From manufacturer Festo:
With the AirPenguins, the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them “autonomous flight in the sea of air”. For this purpose, control and regulating technology had to be further developed into self-regulating biomechatronic systems, which could also play a future role in adaptive production.
A group of three autonomously flying penguins hovers freely through a defined air space that is monitored by ultrasound transmission stations. The penguins are at liberty to move within this space; a microcontroller gives them free will in order to explore it.
(Reddit)
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