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Helping Bomb-Sniffers Make Sense of Scents

added Wed Jan 24 23:13 2007 ET from Scientific American

The researchers call their new scheme "infotaxis" and claim that the method's most practical application would be for robot "sniffers" used to track dilute odors emanating from chemicals, bombs or drugs.

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