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The sloth, suspended under a dense canopy of leaves, makes slow strides. Slowly, painfully long. Slowly but deliberately. The little creature, crawling high among the trees and traipsing over a 100-foot steel wire, resembles a sluggish acrobat. Its aim, however, is not to entertain or put on a show; in reality, it is the polar opposite. It s all about stealth, observation, and soaking in as much sunshine as possible for this sloth. This is, after all, a solar-powered robot.
SlothBot
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SlothBot is under the direct supervision of the researchers who designed it at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. You will see the robot s googly eyes and 3D-printed shell as you walk along the garden s elevated Canopy Walk. The sloth does not seem to be gathering critical environmental data such as temperature and carbon dioxide levels, but it is.
Gongora orchid in Panama.
But euglossine bees are not known to live up high in the Andes, where scientists have also spotted these orchids. “Are bees going up rivers to get oils, and coming back down to live?” Coffey wonders. “Or is there another insect that has a relationship with these orchids?”
That s where SlothBot comes in.
Examining rainforest wildlife is not easy. Researchers must install massive nets between trees to help them gain access to certain species, but these nets are expensive, hard to deploy, and they interfere with the surrounding natural habitat. Humans are also big, loud, clumsy, disruptive. Meanwhile, a small robot could hang out undetected for long stretches of time, collecting data that scientists might otherwise miss.