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Vol.2, No.2, 49-57 (2012) Open Journal of Ecology /10.4236/oje.2012.22006 Robots in Ecology: Welcome to the machine 1,2* 3 4 1 5 David Grémillet , William Puech , Véronique Garçon , Thierry Boulinier , Yvon Le Maho 1Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France; * Corresponding Author: david.gremillet@rs.fr 2FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa 3Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics, National Center for Scientific Research, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France 4Laboratory of Geophysics and Satellite Oceanography, National Center for Scientific Research, Toulouse, France 5Department of Ecology, Physiology and Ethology, Hubert Curien Institute, National Center for Scientific Research, Strasbourg, France Received 8 December 2011; revised 14 February 2012; accepted 24 February 2012 ABSTRACT censuses of the earth’s biodiversity, 2) understand the impact of ongoing global change upon the biosphere in Robots have primarily been developed for warfare, end-to-end ecosystems, 3) predict future trends according yet they also serve peaceful purposes. Their use to a series of scenarios conditioned by politics and socio- in Ecology is in its infancy, but they may soon economic development. This in turn requires observing, become essential tools in a broad variety of eco- exper