
A robot lives in this Antarctic penguin colony. It's trying to save them
CNN
A robot can be found among a sea of 20,000 Emperor penguins living in a colony in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Named ECHO, it's part of a larger program to monitor the health of the penguins and their fragile ecosystem, both at risk due to the climate crisis.
Slightly shorter than the average adult emperor, the 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) autonomous robot sits silently within the colony, nondescript compared with humans who sometimes emerge from a nearby research station.
The birds occasionally notice ECHO, an unmanned and remote-controlled ground vehicle, because "they exhibit curiosity to everything that they don't know," said Dan Zitterbart, associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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