Pollen Detection Robots
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 30 of January , 2008 at 6:06 am
I don’t suffer from hay fever myself, but I guess enough people in Japan do that a weather forecasting company (Weathernews) is deploying some 200 of these 2 pound, volleyball-sized robots to hang around outside and sniff pollen. Each of the styrofoam “Pollen Robots” has two eyes which glow different colors (white, blue, green, red and purple) depending on how much pollen they sense in the air. Results are uploaded every minute over the internet to update an online pollen map.
These networked environmental monitoring bots are a lot like the smart coconuts we wrote about over on OhGizmo last year, even if they are a little less, uh, stoned out.
VIA [ Pink Tentacle ]
Category: Research
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Comment by Earthworm
Made Wednesday, 30 of January , 2008 at 8:30 am
Someone mentioned it on the posting site, but it does remind me alot of the evil AI in Portal. Especially the fact that their is a room full of them…