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Mine Lobster

Posted in Cool by Dan at 10:02 am
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robolobster.jpg No, this isn’t a lame B-Cut of a B52’s song. This unique robot lobster was designed to crawl along the bottom of coastal areas and monitor the environment and search for planted mines to save soldiers lives.

The really neat thing is that the robot lobsters are constructed to mimic a real lobsters physical structure (note the lobster tail), as well as the way they think and explore. However, I’m not sure sure that these robots would taste as good as the real thing when dipped in butter.

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