Welcome to Field Robot Chronicles!

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Welcome to Field Robot Chronicles!

Greetings fellow Adventurebot! It’s Erin RobotZwrrl here, and I’m stoked to reboot our newsletter and give a re-introduction to our initiatives.

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You might remember us from these projects:

Bowie

A 3D printed robot that picks up plastic from beaches

Watch a video of it in action

Atmosphinder

Wind-propelled robot to explore gas jet eruptions on Mars, tested at the Mars Desert Research Station

Watch a video of it in action

Robot Butterfly

Companion robot to appreciate the elegance of nature with

Watch a video of it in action

EJA robot with the buoy on the surface of the water with the gear below

EJA

Pop-up ropeless gear fishing robot through the Hackaday Dream Teams

Watch a video of it in action

Some of you may even remember us way back from RoboBrrd! Chirp!

Wait, why am I receiving this?

You are receiving this because *unrolls a long papyrus scroll and checks notes*

Erin’s talk at TEDxOttawa (virtual) - 2020

Chances are, it has been a while. Welcome back! We’re not here to sell, just to reconnect and share cool robot updates.

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Here’s what you can look forward to in the Field Robot Chronicles:

Photos & videos of our robots in nature
Highlights from community events (Robot In The Park)
Behind the scenes updates on our robot development (Robot Missions)

The newsletter will be sent approximately once a month — unless one of our robots does something particularly epic! This experiment will be for 6 months.

Why the Reboot?

We’re gearing up for the upcoming field season. Fresh robots, fresh air, through local initiatives. We think you might enjoy it! Updates on that will be shared through this newsletter.

Robots in Nature

Take a look at Robot Butterfly in nature in autumn, with the nice warm glowing colours of the season. ☺️ Robots in nature will be a regular feature of the newsletter.

Golden yellow leaves on a water backdrop with a Robot Butterfly with matching golden yellow wings

Robot Butterfly with orange wings sitting in a tree with light green - yellow leaves

Close up of Robot Butterfly's vibrant orange wing on the backdrop of orange-red leaves

Robot Butterfly perched in a tree with orange wings on the backdrop of orange-red leaves

If this is of interest, you can see even more photos of our robots in nature on our Instagram page.

Recently, the Robot Butterfly kit instructions have been extensively documented, step by step. There are over 80 steps in total! Check it out here

The Journey

Analogue astronaut deploying Atmosphinder at the Mars Desert Research Station

Extravehicular activity testing Atmosphinder at the Mars Desert Research Station with the Transatlantic Mars Crew 261 in May 2022. Photo by Kris Davidson.

It’s still Erin steering the ship here, with support along the way from volunteer collaborators (huge thanks to them!). If you’re interested in following the journey, we’d be thrilled to have you along!

Oh yeah! Feel free to reply to this email if you want, let us know where you remember our robots from, and/or how you envision robots and nature working together in the year 2025. It would be cool to hear from any of you!

Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

- Erin RobotZwrrl

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