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Yeti Robot Tackles Crevasse Detection in Polar Regions

“During the 2010-11 field season in Antarctica, personnel at the South Pole Station used a series of small explosions to collapse several old buildings, which had been buried under the ice for decades but that had become a hazard to surface travel. The question this past season: Was it now safe to travel over an area known as Old Pole, the first research station built by the United States back in the 1950s? The U.S. Antarctic Program enlisted Yeti to find out. No, not the 10-foot-tall creature with a serious hirsute problem. This Yeti doesn’t come with hair — just four wheels, a metal body, a bunch of batteries and high-tech radar. It’s the creation of Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, specially designed to operate in the polar regions.”