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Four-legged, dog-like robot 'sniffs' hazardous gases in inaccessible environment s
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-Nightmare material or truly man's best friend? A team of researchers equipped a dog-like quadruped robot with a mechan ized arm that takes air samples from potentially treacherous situations, such as an abandoned building or fire. The robot dog walks samples to a person who scre ens them for potentially hazardous compounds, says the team that published its s tudy in ACS' Analytical Chemistry. While the system needs further refinement, de monstrations show its potential value in dangerous conditions. Testing the air for dangerous chemicals in risky workplaces or after an accident , such as a fire, is an important but very dangerous task for scientists and tec hnicians. To keep humans out of harm's way, Bin Hu and colleagues are developing mobile detection systems for hazardous gases and volatile organic compounds (VO Cs) by building remote-controlled sampling devices like aerial drones and tiny r emotely operated ships. The team's latest entry into this mechanical menagerie i s a dog-like robot with an articulated testing arm mounted on its back. The inde pendently controlled arm is loaded with three needle trap devices (NTDs) that ca n collect air samples at any point during the robot's terrestrial mission.
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