Traveling To Antarctica? 'Yeti' Robot Will Be Your Guide

Traveling to Antarctica would definitely be a fun filled adventure provide you have a guide who can guide you through proper paths. The nice and smooth looking snow may have several meters deep crevasses and if you get trapped in one - there's no way out. This very issue slows down the general movement in Antarctica. To overcome this challenge, engineers from Dartmouth developed a guide robot, called 'Yeti'. Yet's been around for quite some time now but the creates of it have just published a paper on it in Journal Of Field Robotics. The main aim of the research paper is to show that Yeti can make a huge difference to the logistics in Antarctica.

Yeti is equipped with sensors that can detect dangerous crevasses and find an alternate path. Yeti saves about $2 million every year. Yeti has proven to be a very cost effective solution, given it costs only $25k.

Yeti's not only effective in snow; but its technology has already been proven very useful in terrain surveys to detect underground rivers and buried buildings and objects.