WOODS HOLE (CBS) — A tiny robotic resides with penguins in Antarctica, and it’s sending essential info again to native researchers on Cape Cod.
The robotic named ECHO belongs to the Woods Gap Oceanographic Establishment however is at the moment dwelling with an Emperor penguin colony to assist scientists examine marine ecosystems. They are saying this enables them to gather knowledge year-round whereas lessening their affect on the animals.
They are saying the penguins look like getting together with ECHO.
“The actually cool factor is that if I as a human would attempt to get as shut as ECHO, they’d be working away,” the Marine Animal Distant Sensing Lab’s Daniel Zitterbart informed Well-liked Science. “We don’t wish to scare the animals. Our common purpose is to do extra science with much less affect. And people have a lot larger affect on the animals than the robotic truly has.”
