• Question: Do you think echolocation might be a way to help robots move around in the future?

    Asked by 324canj26 to Tom on 9 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Tom Rooney

      Tom Rooney answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      totally! dolphins do it very well but they have a few million years evolutionary head start on us! Underwater robots use forward looking sonar (echolocation) to help avoid bumping into things. Land robots use light or millimetric radar to do the same thing.

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