Scientists Use Robot Penguins to Spy on the Real Thing
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
'Popular Mechanics has a great story about robot penguins being used to study Emperor penguin colonies in their natural habitat without disturbing them. After discovering tagging penguins with bands around their flippers was harmful—it impaired their survival and the number of their offspring, presumably by reducing their speed in the water - scientists switched to implanted RFID tags.
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