Intelligence robots will participate in South Pole exploration

时间：2007-09-29 06:29:22

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Chinanews, Beijing, Sept 28 – China will soon kick off its 24th exploration activity in the South Pole, in which two intelligence robots will be used. One robot will wander on ice surface and another will fly low in the sky. This will be the first time that China uses intelligence robots in its South Pole exploration, the Science and Technology Daily reported.

 

The two robots were made by China Polar Research Center, Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing University of Aeronautics1 and Astronautics.

 

The ice wandering intelligence robot weighs 200 kilograms. It looks like a tank with a pole that can move up and down. The robot can move past ice cracks, climb over snow slopes and snow dunes2. It can move around within a radius3 of 25 kilometers. It can carry things weighing 40 kilograms at most on its back while working and at the same time can pull things that weigh 100 kilograms. In the recent exploration in the South Pole, the hefty robot will take with it a high-precision differential global positioning system (DGPS) device and a weather observation station.

 

In contrast to the big, hefty robot that moves on the ice, the robot that flies in the low sky in the South Pole will be a small, light device. It weighs only 20 kilograms and has a carrying capacity of only 5 kilograms. However, the robot's flying speed can reach 50-100 kilometers an hour and it can keep flying in the sky for one hour without stopping, even on days with a strong breeze. This time, the little chap will carry with it an ocean monitoring infrared4 radiation device and a camera.

 

“Compared with human explorers, the two intelligence robots have a strong point that human explorers do not have – they can work in all weather conditions, ” said a person in charge of the exploration project at China Polar Research Center.

 

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1 aeronautics BKVyg     
n.航空术，航空学
参考例句：
  • National Aeronautics and Space undertakings have made great progress.国家的航空航天事业有了很大的发展。
  • He devoted every spare moment to aeronautics.他把他所有多余的时间用在航空学上。
2 dunes 8a48dcdac1abf28807833e2947184dd4     
沙丘( dune的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot. 那男孩光着脚在沙丘间飞跑。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
3 radius LTKxp     
n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限
参考例句：
  • He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
  • We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。
4 infrared dx0yp     
adj./n.红外线(的)
参考例句：
  • Infrared is widely used in industry and medical science.红外线广泛应用于工业和医学科学。
  • Infrared radiation has wavelengths longer than those of visible light.红外辐射的波长比可见光的波长长。

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