ThunderBird 007 Metal Detecting Robot Pays For Itself, Eventually
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 14 of August , 2009 at 12:54 am
Gareth from Let’s Make Robots has been working on a series of autonomous metal detecting robots, and ThunderBird 007 is his latest and greatest version. The idea is that the robot will, over some unspecified period of time, be entirely self funding, paying for its own components by bringing you back a pile ‘o gold doubloons. In addition to a metal detecting wand, TB-007 has a wireless camera and a laser pointer to show you exactly what it finds, and Gareth is working on determining the “metal signature” of different coins, which would enable the robot to scout out the most valuable finds.
All it needs now is a little scoop and some kind of basket, and you could just set an army of these little guys loose on the beach, kick back, and rake in the bottle caps.
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Comment by quantum_flux
Made Thursday, 11 of November , 2010 at 1:04 pm
Yeah, hopefully they’ll improve on this concept with a digging mechanism. I’ve found some dissapointing things with a metal detector in a wash before, old hubcaps, metal pipes, brake disks, etc….was looking for gold nuggets since a mine was nearby, but found none.
