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Robot to monitor natural habitats, the project is underway

2021-01-28T15:22:32.215Z


(HANDLE) Robots that move easily in natural environments, able to walk on sandy surfaces and on steep and rocky paths, with the task of monitoring forests, prairies, dunes and mountains threatened by global warming and pollution. Over the next three years, the University of Pisa will coordinate the 'Natural intelligence for robotic monitoring of habitats' (Ni) project, funded by the European Union with a t


Robots that move easily in natural environments, able to walk on sandy surfaces and on steep and rocky paths, with the task of monitoring forests, prairies, dunes and mountains threatened by global warming and pollution.

Over the next three years, the University of Pisa will coordinate the 'Natural intelligence for robotic monitoring of habitats' (Ni) project, funded by the European Union with a total budget of three million euros (of which one is for the University of Pisa).



The goal, explains a note, is to develop robotic systems capable of 'leaving' laboratories and moving in natural habitats. The project manager is Manolo Garabini, researcher of the research center 'E. Piaggio 'and the Department of Information Engineering, which will lead a consortium of international partners. "The Ni project aims to develop new systems capable of exploiting a body based on soft robotic technologies capable of adapting to unstructured environments - explains Garabini -. These special bodies will be accompanied by new algorithms that will constitute the mind of the robots. The objective of these algorithms will be multiple: on the one hand they will facilitate locomotion, making it energetically more efficient, more robust to disturbances and uneven terrain and also allowing more difficult movements, such as dynamic jumps or walking on steep paths; on the other hand, these new algorithms will make robots able to carry out their mission in a (partially) autonomous way "and" also to identify and catalog the various species typical of the natural environments under analysis ". For Garabini, "the new technologies developed by Ni will make it possible to facilitate and strengthen environmental protection, making the European Union a world leader in the sector". (HANDLE).

Source: ansa

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