Treebot is aSlinky robot that can gripping the tree with legs resembling like the spider used to climb a tree are great though as the tree forests.
The Straits Times, was quoted as saying Friday (1/7/2011), this robot was equipped with a camera that serves to find the object or any of the harmful impact of the forest. Although it is high and been in the middle of the foliage.
"I basically use it to observe how the worm runs on the tree and it gives me a lot of ideas," says Dr. Yangsheng Xu, makers of Treebot and Professor of Chinese University, Hong Kong.
"I think, We must develop a robot monitoring the situation of the forests, especially now that a lot of fires and disasters that occur in forested areas," Xu added.
Treebot-equipped camera can transmit images in real time and have been using the solar cell technology. So, no need to do a recharge to giving it the power of such robots. Despite this, the robot has a weight of only 600gram, but the robot is capable of carrying an object which weighs three times heavier than weigh.
"It could climb to a wide variety of trees, ranging from a smooth surface, the surface is rough, even able to walk to a variety of directions, from the large and small. In addition, it can automatically attached to the branch so that the mobility is very good, "pungkasnya.
However, Treebot has yet to be perfected because still need improvement in some of the things covered, the camera still less focus on dark light and tend to slip when the tree is in the wet.
However, Dr. Xu said potentially very Treebot and will soon be crawled its way to the tree that exists throughout the world.
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