An aardvark might make a great design to copy for a robot. Certain organic species and animals do indeed have many excellent traits that can be used in robotic design. It appears that evolution has served the animal kingdom very well.

You see the aardvark has some very unique features with really great gripping clawed feet. It has a strong tail to balance on, as well as a long snout able to get into tight places along with a super long tongue able to get into even tighter spots. You can see why such a robotic tool could assist mankind as a robotic design for search and rescue, sniffing out bombs, searching buildings or helping find survivors in an Earthquake.

The aardvark is a smart animal in the organic form, but with an artificial intelligent brain, strong power system and a robust set of sensors, well it might just be the perfect robotic tool for many applications.

Some may say; are you nuts? No actually this makes a lot more sense than the robotic dogs robotic engineers building or University Teams are now conceiving. Some say; but aardvarks are ugly? Well that is a matter of opinion, because they have excellent hearing, good eyes and so many great features to serve their niche it is almost hard to find a better animal for many human applications.

They are unfortunately not so easy to domesticate, to work with us as pets and trading them for food is silly as they are so well adapted finding and catching their food is simple for them. Therefore it makes sense to make robotic aardvarks to use as special tools in important applications. Consider this in 2006.

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