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Glue-sniffing robot meets wireless mesh robot in London Park - romance?

If you think the robot covered in tiger-skin must be the feral robot, guess again. According to the organisers of the Feral Robot trials, the tiger-skin covers the glue-sniffer. Did it have a good time?

"We adapted a Locustworld meshbox to act as a battery powered mobile mesh node with SPACE Media's WiFi network broadcasting into the southern part of London Fields," reports Giles, a member of the joint Birkbeck/Proboscis team. London Fields is an open park, just North of Hackney's Victoria Park.

The robot took sensor readings (air quality and carbon dioxide) approximately every two seconds, together with a GPS location fix to enable the reading to be correlated with a map and with other forms of local knowledge posted on the Urban Tapestries platform.

Full story and pictures at Urban Tapestries. And the glue-sniffer? "Sensors attuned to solvent" it says. But no records kept, M'Lud. See also "how to build a wireless robot."

 Tags: robot, WiFi Mesh, LocustWorld