Creepy Teardown Reveals What’s Inside a Robot Designed to Spy on Nature

In an effort to capture never - before - see footage of animals in their born home ground , the BBC’sSpy in the Wildseries created robotic versions of meerkats , monkeys , and other creatures designed to blend in with their real - liveliness counterpart . Therobots are unusually graphic , until you remove all of their fur and unwrap their inside workings .

design and built by a especial effects artist key John Nolan , each of these animatronic spies , packed with electronics and servos , can take calendar month to create — and even longer in the case of thelife - size of it sawing orangutan . Each golem is specifically orchestrate and programme to naturally recreate the motility of their real - life vis-a-vis , but wireless remotes also allow film producer to manually control the camera - fit out spies so they appear to interact with the fauna , resulting in some absorbing footage .

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