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Robotics in the Wild
In order to teach us about the creatures that inhabit our world, filmmakers have gone to great lengths and have employed cutting edge technology to blend into the environment. But what do you do when the creature is a penguin and its environment is the Antarctic tundra? Rafael Pi Roman, host of MetroFocus recently sat down with Fred Kauffman, executive producer of the PBS series, Nature.
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