Robots go Where Scientists Fear to Tread

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Ayanna Howard an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech with a SnoMote a robot designed to gather scientific data in ice environments.
Ayanna Howard, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, with a SnoMote, a robot designed to gather scientific data in ice environments.

Scientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world’s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed, humidity, radiation) can be obtained by satellite, it isn’t as accurate as good old-fashioned, on-site measurement and static ground-based weather stations don’t allow scientists to collect info from as many locations as they’d like.


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