Camel Racing

So, when we have watched cars driving along the side of the race track, what have we been watching? Well, we can be quite sure that we have been watching the trainers. They have been following the race and ‘talking’ to their camels as they go. The camels have been responding to their owners’ instructions, which are usually telling them to run faster! 

 These child-jockeys were light and enabled the camel to run faster. But the racing wasn’t safe for the children, so a new law was introduced that banned anyone under 16 from racing. Another issue with human jockeys was the tendency to whip the camels hard to get them to run faster. This often resulted in injuring the camels and leaving them with scars. So what could they do …?

 And through designing these, they found that the camels responded very quickly to the push-button whip. This meant the animals were hit less and not so forcefully by the human jockeys, and the camels would finish the race free from injuries or scars. 

They are much lighter and this usually means that the camels run much faster.

Apparently, the robots can be made from almost anything. And some of them have shock absorbers and GPS trackers! But the most important factor is that they are really light.