Elsewhere Online: Telerobotic birdwatching

Here is the high-end version of what I have been doing with uStream.tv -- a telerobotic birdwatching system. Signup for free and help to catalog the birds seen via the camera.

What a great way to escape the office for a little while in the middle of the day!

Telerobotic birdwatching

David Pescovitz: CONE Sutro Forest is a new telerobotic birdwatching project from UC Berkeley's Ken Goldberg, Texas A&M's Dezhen Song, and their collaborators. An ultra-high resolution telerobotic camera is mounted outside the home of craigslist founder Craig Newmark, whose balcony overlooks San Francisco's Sutro Forest. (Continues)

(Via Boing Boing.)

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