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Robotic ‘digger finger’ could search for buried land mines – Yahoo News Australia
Researchers have built a robot ‘finger’ that can dig through sand to find buried items like land mines and cables.
Robots can already find objects in plain sight, but asking them to go beneath the surface is tougher they’ll have to operate by touch if they squirm through sand, and wireless tech like radar only produces a indistinct view of what’s below. That might not be as much of a challenge for long, though, as MIT researchers have built a robot “Digger Finger” (really, a probe) that can sift through granular material like sand to find objects by feel.
The machine is an upgraded version of an earlier tactile…
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