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This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality | TechCrunch

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RoboTurtle is a solar-powered robot that can navigate bodies of water, while monitoring their quality via onboard sensors.

The robot could be used to monitor conditions during oil spills, survey disaster damage, and monitor endangered species in their nature habitat.

Beatbot claims that the decision to lean into biomimicry with the turtle design is a bid to, “minimize[e] disruption to surrounding ecosystems”.

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