Slowness as Design Principle
In a paper from 2019, Gennaro Notomista, Yousef Emam, and Magnus Egerstedt, roboticists working on SlothBot, describe how the robot is designed with long-term, low-powered environmental monitoring in mind. The authors note that SlothBot's mechanical and technological design prioritises energy efficiency and fail-safeness so as to be more self-sustaining than other technologies used in environmental and agricultural monitoring such as quadcopters.