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"Imagine a robot that can detect scents in the air and track down their sources
as efficiently as a dog or a mouse. If realised, it could detect small
wildfires in dense forests, find people buried in debris after an earthquake,
or even hunt for truffles!
Our research team has brought this vision one step closer to reality, by
creating a compact electronic nose capable of identifying odours within
milliseconds.
In our study, the goal was to explore this artificial sense of smell, and test
how fast we can extract valuable information about the environment from the
air. We show that the “speed of smell” matches and sometimes even exceeds those
of mammals.
Our study is now published in
Science Advances."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
