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The Washington Post
Mar 12, 2013
High-tech 'Yeti' may revolutionize exploration near North and South poles
Professor Laura Ray's Yeti is a self-guided polar robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map what lies beneath the ice — often, a crevasse waiting to claim lives and expensive equipment.
Gizmodo
Mar 12, 2013
Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers Past Concealed Crevasses
Tractor crews are being led by the Yeti, a four-wheel drive rover equipped with ground penetrating radar designed by students at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering coordinating with engineers from CRREL.
IEEE Spectrum
Mar 12, 2013
Robot Yeti Tells You Where Not to Go in Antarctica
Researchers from Dartmouth, including professor of engineering Laura Ray and her students, came up with Yeti, a GPS-guided robot that can drag a ground-penetrating radar around to detect impending doom.
LiveScience
Mar 12, 2013
Robot Called 'Yeti' Finds Cracks in Antarctic Ice
Meet Yeti, a faithful rover of the robotic kind that sniffs out dangerous crevasses for convoys crossing the glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland—developed by a team of students led by Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray.
Dartmouth Medicine
Mar 11, 2013
Seed funding aims to improve prostate cancer diagnoses
Ryan Halter, assistant professor of engineering and adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Geisel School of Medicine, is working to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnoses.
Slate
Mar 06, 2013
Yeti Robot Finds Deadly Antarctic Crevasses So We Don't Have To
Meet the Yeti. This four-wheel-drive rover drags a ground-penetrating radar arm capable of logging information that tells scientists what lies below.
NHPR
Mar 04, 2013
Who Needs Batteries? Seacoast Firm Stores Energy With Air
NHPR interviews the VP of energy storage company SustainX, founded in 2007 by Professor Charles Hutchinson and engineering students Dax Kepshire Th'06, '09, Ben Bollinger '04 Th'04, '08, and Troy McBride Th'01.
Wired Science
Mar 01, 2013
How a Robot Is Changing the Game of Antarctic Science
Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray's Antarctic work could preview a new era in the relationship between human scientists and robotic field assistants.