A Mussel-bound Robot

At a time when robots build cars, perambulate mars, vacuum homes, and serve drinks, one that lies motionless on a shoreline and takes its own temperature may not seem to have much going for it. But a sessile robo-mussel, the creation of University of South Carolina marine biologist Brian Helmuth, has already changed the way science looks at the effects of global warming on the world’s intertidal zones, those turbulent places where ocean and land meet.

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