Environmental cleanup robots being trained at UT Dallas to tackle hurricanes, oil spills

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It’s not easy for human beings to clean up after a hurricane or oil spill. To find out what hazardous chemicals are in an area, or if the air is safe to...

Aided by machine learning, the UTD robots can navigate environmental sites that might be dangerous or challenging for humans to enter

The robots can navigate environmental sites that might be dangerous or challenging for humans to enter, and collect thousands of data points in a matter of minutes. Lary hopes the tech can clue us into our environment without putting people in danger in the process. “Many of these observations don’t necessarily agree with each other,” Lary said. “About 25, 30 years ago … I was looking around earnestly to find a way to deal with this, because it’s a particularly pernicious problem.”

“How do you go from $500 to $100,000?” asked Lakitha Wijeratne, a research associate for the UT Dallas Office of Information Technology and a member of Lary’s lab. “The difference can be made up using machine learning.”

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