Tlaloc II-TC

Tlaloc II - TC, also known as the Tlaloc II Robot, is a robot especially designed for the exploration of the tunnel discovered in 2003 under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site founded in the second century BC in central Mexico.

The robot was designed by the INAH for the project called “Proyecto Tlalocan, Camino bajo la tierra”.[1] Tlaloc II-TC is a successor of the first robot design for archaeological exploration called Tlaloc I which brought to light the first images of the tunnel in 2010.

Tlaloc II-TC weighed 35 kg and discovered three previously unknown chambers in 2013.[2] Its designer, Ng Tze Chuen, was previously involved with developing the Djedi robot that was used to explore small tunnels in the Pyramids in Egypt.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Premian al proyecto Tlalocan como uno de los descubrimientos más importantes del mundo". inah.gob.mx. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. ^ Joan Soriano Campos (15 December 2016). A Visual History of Archaeological Discoveries Around the World. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-4994-6577-8.
  3. ^ "Teotihuacan's Tunnel and Missing Clues" (PDF). Archaeomaya. Maya Exploration Center: 5. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-31.