Researchers’ new best friend? Robot dog gets to work

A robot-dog remotely control, named Robotic Assistance Complex System (SCAR) and developed by French engineering school ‘Les Mines Nancy’ and operated by Andra, is pictured in a corridor of 490m (1607 ft) deep in the Underground Laboratory at Bure, near Nancy, eastern France. — AFP

BURE, France: Deep underground in eastern France, a four-legged bundle of energy named Scar steps gingerly through vast caverns, loaded with sensors for taking measures in places where humans might fear to tread.

It’s an ideal training ground for Scar, a robotic “dog” being groomed by researchers at the Ecole des Mines engineering school in Nancy.