Scientists teach robots to navigate through vegetation

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Robots typically use a combination of sensors to perceive their surroundings such as ultrasonic sensors, Lidar , infrared sensors and camera systems. However, these are not often enough to allow robots to actually bypass the vegetation so commonly found in real outdoor environments.

The engineers proceeded to create a type of robot that can actually monitor its own limbs to evaluate if anything gets stuck on them and to then take appropriate action to liberate its legs. This is no easy task!

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