The British Antarctic Survey says autonomous vehicles are ‘transforming polar science’
A robot is cruising beneath Antarctic sea ice. Another is bolted to the face of a collapsing Greenland glacier. A third is silently counting penguins on a remote, windswept beach.
None of them has a human operator nearby.
Across the Arctic and Antarctic, autonomous robots are changing the way scientists explore some of the world’s most remote and inhospitable environments. [Read more…] about Cold calling: How autonomous robots are transforming polar science in the Arctic and Antarctic